Re: Debian IS for the enterprise (Was: Debian Enterprise?)
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:35:50AM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> Quoting Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:00:20PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> > > But with the last few 'stable releases', I do not call it 'the
> > > best' distribution any more! I'm getting quite feed up with the
> > > way releases are handled... I don't mind late releases, as long as
> > > they are GOOD!
> >
> > Uh, dude:
>
> I'm fully aware of this. And if you look at my initial mail, I clearly
> state that I'm part of the problem!
>
> But since we're (more than?) 600 developers, maintaining 8000 packages
> is difficult. But if those 600 developers only had say 3000 (just a
> number out the head), then more bugs could be fixed, and I could get
> more help fixing MY bugs when/if I don't have the time (or knowledge,
> which is the case in the listed packages).
No, because if we only had, say, 3000 packages, a lot of people wouldn't
have their pet packages left in Debian, and thus nothing to care for...
Would you become an active apache2-maintainer if we dumped Roxen? After
all, we don't need more than one webserver, do we?!
I try to submit fixes for other packages too, but only for packages I
use. The reason? I want to be able to have at least a chance to know if
something goes haywire. And some of the packages I use I wouldn't
possibly be able to send fixes for anyway without first learning to
master other programming languages.
Regards: David Weinehall
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