Re: package ownership in Debian
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:35:02PM +0000, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> >On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:46:58 +0000, Gustavo Franco
> ><gustavorfranco@gmail.com> said:
> >
> >> On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:16:53 +0000, Gustavo Franco
> >>> <gustavorfranco@gmail.com> said:
> >>>
> >>> > On 7/29/06, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote:
> >>> >> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 02:49:34AM +0000, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> >>> >> > Hello, i thought Debian project was a big team. If people here
> >>> >> > don't want to work in a team, we're going nowhere.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Two words for you: Fred Brooks.
> >>>
> >>> > More two for you: Be polite.
> >>>
> >>> What is so impolite in pointing you to an excellent reference, and
> >>> gently reminding you that increasing team size (to, say, the number
> >>> of Debian contributors) is detrimental to product quality and
> >>> ability to deliver on time?
> >
> >> Manoj, it's clear he was trolling, it was far from gently reminding
> >> me, come on.
> >
> > It is not at all clear that pointing to the mythical man month
> > in a discussion on forcing teams or even make it all one huge honking
> > source code repo with universal commit and build from the repo is
> > trolling at all.
>
> I never asked to force teams everywhere in the project
Manoj didn't accuse you of doing so. He said "in a discussion on forcing
teams", when you have previously admitted that, in some cases, you are in
favour of requiring (AKA "forcing") teams for the maintenance of some
packages.
- Matt
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