Re: long term goals of debian membership
[Vain attempt to move to -project]
On Dec 03, Brian Mays wrote:
> Take dpkg, for instance. We don't let just anybody work on that code. It
> is far too important to trust to just anybody. Ian Jackson was careful to
> guard it against tampering by unqualified hands, and he was correct to do
> so.
And the codebase stagnated for years until finally Wichert and a few
others had to fork it...
But your general point is well-taken.
Chris
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