Re: task & skills
* Brendan Cully (brendan@kublai.com) [001203 21:18]:
> The maintainer has a lot of responsibility for integrating all these
> contributions in a sane way, so that changes don't break systems,
> don't break upgrades, don't break removals, and work with the rest of
> the debian system. You can't do these things reliably without a good
> amount of knowledge about the package system, and some experience on
> top of that.
Quite a limited perspective, wouldn't you agree? As if Debian was only about
packages?
And this way you create a new bottleneck: the webmaintainer collects the
webpatches, the hurd maintainer collects all the hurd patches etc....
Look at the linux kernel for an example of a one person bottleneck.
Quality and speed of releases is not improving.
> > The thing that bothers me the _most_ is that all of the tasks that I
> > have listed take _way_ more effort than maintaining some package of
> > the packages in our archive: many are updated a few times a year, if
> > that.
>
> You want to work on debian, which is great. I see nothing in your mail
> which explains why you want to be a MAINTAINER.
Then call him a developer. You are right: Maintainers maintain packages,
developer develop new stuff.
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