Re: [OT] lazy maintainers
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:03:37AM -0500, Jared Johnson wrote:
> Despite the convenience of testing/unstable, the main goal of a
> package maintainer is to actually make a good release of Debian
> happen, not to make bleeding-edgers happy.
sorry, that's not true.
the main goal of a debian developer is to maintain their packages to
the best of their ability. some also choose to work on other aspects
of debian, such as the web site or translation efforts or release
engineering or the boot-floppies...like everything else in debian, these
are all *voluntary* activities.
*some* debian developers think that the stable CD release of debian is
the primary goal.
some other debian developers think it's just an interesting sideline.
still others think that it's basically irrelevant.
the only time that this ever becomes any kind of a problem is when the
first group tries to force their priorities onto the second and third
groups.
craig
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