Chris Cheney wrote: > The only people > actually waiting that long now (aiui) are people James does not want in > the project at all. Then why are they left hanging indefinitely rather than being rejected? > Also, it seems like most DD's don't maintain many packages anyway. Yes > there are other things that a DD can do other than just maintain > packages, like help with web translations, boot floppies, etc. But nearly > two thirds of the developers/sponsored developers maintain 4 sources or > less [0]. If even half of those 746 maintainers focused on helping close > RC bugs we would probably be close to releaseable today. > > We don't need more people to throw at the problem, we need more people > willing to do work for the project. Is there something wrong with maintaining only a few packages, especially if the time has one has available to do Debian work is quite limited? Are you suggesting that someone who maintains only a few packages is more trouble than they're worth, and that the project would be better off if they just quit? Craig
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