Re: Intro to debian devel could use some work
on 2002/11/18 11:23, joy@gkvk.hr sent:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:15:47AM -0500, Lloyd D Budd wrote:
>>>>> Is it just me or did the rest of that web page somehow fail to load for
>>>>> you?
>>>>> There's a bunch of material just like that below the first sentence.
>>>>
>>>> The rest of the page loads fine, there definitely is a lot of info there.
>>>> Maybe it is your mirror? Did you check google.com's cached copy?
>>>
>>> I was trying to tell you that your concerns are addressed by the rest of the
>>> web page. I.e., the introduction is short because it's not important. :)
>>
>> An intro is always important, but you have described the largest prob (and
>> greatest) w/ Debian, inertia. But we are losing people to Gentoo, & other
>> projects that have more inviting devel pages ;-)
>
> Given how Theodore Ts'o (the kernel hacker who wrote the ext2 file system
> driver among other things) recently became a Debian developer, I'm inclined
> to disagree with such an assessment :)
Like you I was being facetious to some degree. The hard core will stay true
to debian, and others will likely come back. Still, young blood is good,
and presentation does count.
> On the other hand, send a patch...
I do not know the source file ;-) My "patch" for now would be to remove
that sentence -- I cannot see the value it adds? If I become enough in the
know, I will submit a real patch.
Cheers,
Lloyd D Budd
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