Re: Some proposals
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>>>>> In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.53.0302262218160.12186@samadhi.braincells.com>, "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org> writes:
> Proposal: put all Debian code in a repository and make all
> maintainers responsible for all packages.
When evewryone is responsible for something, no one is
responsible for it.
> No more waiting for absentee maintainers to fix trivial bugs in
> their packages. The BSDs do it and manage to put out regular
> releases. There may need to be levels of privilege i.e a core team
> but I would argue there is a de facto core Debian team right now
> anyway. As long as there is a good communication and a clear audit
> trail for when thngs go wrong I think it could work.
Really? How does one get to be a member of the Core? Who are
they? Where do they meet?
> Proposal: Stop releasing altogether
Not a happy thought for the people who run stable on mission
critical systems.
Why all this rush to gather new constituencies at the expense
of stable sets of old customers? The sqeaky wheel getting all the
lubrication so the other wheels squeek in turn?
> Proposal: Make all the people who talk but aren't going to do
> anything shut up.
Heh. One can wish ...
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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