On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:12:46PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:49:52AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > For everyone else, they can use the publically-available tools to create > > their own apt-gettable archive. While lowering the barriers to entry > > might give more people warm fuzzies, this is no way to protect the > > quality of the Debian distribution. > This may be true, but you also need people to do the work, and if there > aren't enough (active) people in Debian now who are willing to do the work, > then it's probably time for some new blood. If we had all of the manpower we > needed, then we probably would not have let two years pass without a release. This makes two assumptions which I don't believe to be true: * A significant number of people who are unable to find sponsors[1] or unable to get through the current NM process would, if able, make contributions which decrease the deficit of available developer hours versus workload. * Preparation for a release is parallelizable to the same degree as package management. Once again, being strict with the requirements for becoming a developer may not give people warm fuzzies, but it also doesn't restrict them from working on Debian, either. I see no reason to think that someone who can't figure out how to submit patches to the BTS now will magically start doing so once we give them a badge and teach them a secret handshake. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer [1] I allow for the possibility that some good contributors have difficulty finding a sponsor, but eventually do find one. Even here, however, it's useful to note how many not-yet-sponsored packages are new ITPs versus orphaned or RFP'ed software.
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