On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:58:10PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Andrew Suffield said: > >On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:56:44PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > <snip> > >> Wrong. There have been specific technical things I wanted to do > >> which simply cannot be done easily as an outsider. > ^^^^^^ > >> > >> Generally it's QA stuff. I'm doing it anyway, of course; it's just > >> slower and more tedious and discouraging. > > > >You just contradicted yourself. It's clearly not wrong - you *are* > No, I didn't contradict myself. Read what I said again carefully, > noticing the word which I pointed out for you. That word is 'easily'. > I *am* doing the work, but I am *not* doing it easily; I am instead > doing it with difficulty. Got it? And you've missed my point entirely. > >doing it anyway. So the system works as it is supposed to. > The system is supposed to make it hard for people to contribute? > That seems dumb. :-) > > OK, I admit to deliberately twisting your meaning a little in that last > paragraph, but I'm trying to make a point. "The system" actively > discourages people from contributing, and makes it hard for their > contributions to be used in a timely fashion. This seems bad to me. Actually it isn't. It helps to reduce the crap; if we allowed *anybody* to upload packages, then we'd have a lot more useless packages than we already do. Requiring at least some minimal effort means people will usually constrain themselves to things they actually think are worthwhile. But that's just a coincidental side-effect, not a cause. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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