Re: Proposal #3: Upstream/Debian Project donations
Venture Communism <venturecommunism@yahoo.com> writes:
> So let's get this straight.
> Step 1) Ask APT people if it belongs in APT
> Get told to go to debian-project list
> Step 2) Ask debian-project list if can put in APT
> Get told doesn't belong in APT
> Step 3) Fix proposal so it's not in APT, goes upstream as asked for, etc.
> Get told to go tell another list
You might even get the impression that the project is not particularly
enthusiastic about the idea. :)
More seriously, you really can't understate how much the project felt
generally burned by the huge Dunc-Tank controversy. I was one of the
people who thought it was a decent idea at the time, but the outcome was
far more disruptive than I think it was worth. I think an earlier post
from you mentioned that you didn't find a lot of good information on-line
about it. There is an article at:
http://archive09.linux.com/feature/59300
which isn't awful, but which more importantly has links to a variety of
other articles and might be a good starting point to understand more about
what happened.
This is not directly relevant to the proposal to provide a way to locate
upstream donation points; rather, it's about funding for Debian
development directly. But that controversy is a good example of the
general project leeriness towards sending money to people and a social
analysis of the fallout provides some understanding of why.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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