Re: long term goals of debian membership
> bug1@optushome.com.au (Glenn McGrath) wrote:
>
> > So is one better than average person more valuable than 10 or 100 less
> > skilled people ?
>
> Are you kidding? Yes, it certainly is. Substandard work and poor ideas,
> even if implemented with great vigor, usually prove to be more detrimental
> than good.
>
> 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.
What's your point?!?
The point isn't "let's drag in shitloads of stupid newbies off the street so
they can hack dpkg", it's, "let's at least give some food and a bedpan when
they've been tent-queueing up for 9.9e99999999999999999 years".
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