This one time, at band camp, Sven Luther said: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:22:33AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > amd64 seems to have done quite well for themselves actually. They > > have actually done exactly what this proposal has asked for - they > > have done the heavy lifting themselves, and shown that they have an > > infrastructure that won't unnecessarily bog down the works. > > So you mean that all the tier-2 arches should go and take over alioth > as distribution media ? You read the answer of wiggy about this almost > bringing alioth to his knees ? Shrug. Put up another machine. Nobody is stopping anyone. Use debian.net namespace if you have to. That's what the volatile archive is likely to do through sarge, and I imagine they will have many more downloads than some of the lesser used arches. Like I said, I have no axe to grind, and no attachment one way or another. But it does seem to me like the volunteers doing the core work are saying they can't continue, and people are screaming that this is somehow unfair. > > You seem top have an axe to grind here with somebody, friend, so why > > not just name names and be done with it? Sniping from the back row > > never helps anything. > > Go look at the mailing list archives, there where enough threads about > this in the past few years. I have read them ad nauseum. They are silly and unhelpful, for the most part. However, I have seen no evidence that this assertion about people dropping the ball WRT their Debian duties because of Ubuntu has any basis in fact. If some eveidence and names could be supplied, it would feel less like sour grapes. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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