Re: Proposal to help Debian release on time
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 01:37:00 +0100
Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> wrote:
> The first thing to do is identifying where the problems are. Somebody
> juse told me to on an IRC channel that Debian should decrease the
> number of packages. 20 Ftp-servers aren't needed. However, as long as
> it's causing no problems it doesn't matter either. If there are
> RC-bugs in ftp servers will just be removed and debian ships with 15
> ftp-servers.
package number is no problem, what's blocking is base, not extra
> I already talked about an idea in an previous mail in this
> thread. Giving the base packages multiple maintainers, i.e. having 2
> or 3 people in the Maintainer: field. The PTS already helps for
> this. I think it does make sense (and probably also was the meaning of
> the PTS and somebody is already working on this :-) to use it for
> other things now sent to the maintainer.
http://base.debian.net, yes, more maintainers will help but who taught
us that only maintainers can fix bugs on their packages? I didn't learn
that =P... and I am not telling NMU'ing without asking for it (unless
the maintainer is showing no activity and the package needs to be fixed
quickly) is a good thing, but sending patches do not hurt
> We could also implement the @packages.debian.org address as a
> mailinglist about the package. Now the general discussion about a
> packages happens on the BTS I think. This can also help fixing, for
sure, good idea, as I said before there's place for improvement
but as we both said this should be postponed to woody+1
you have nice ideas, repost them when woody is out ;)
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