Re: Canonical's business model
On 1/11/06, Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org> wrote:
> Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 19:54 -0300, Daniel Ruoso escreveu:
> > Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 14:36 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG escreveu:
> > > Gustavo Franco <gustavorfranco@gmail.com> writes:
> > > > It was already discussed[0], and there's no consensus on this idea of
> > > > "every Ubuntu changeset, a patch in Debian BTS" between DDs.
> > > Right. I want Ubuntu to exercise judgment, and not just give a big
> > > pile of patches, some of which are Debian-relevant and some of which
> > > are not. Think, for example, of the normal way a Debian developer
> > > should interact with upstream.
> >
> > This is exactly the point, what can I do with a patch if I don't know
> > why it's there? Which problem is it trying to address (I know, I can
> > read the patch and guess, but WTF), and why such solution was adopted...
> > Everytime I submit a patch, I also submit this reasoning...
>
> That's sometimes documented in the changelog. I benefited quite a lot
> from the ubuntu patches for gksu, and I've worked quite nicely with
> seb128 and mvo on issues like this one and update-manager.
I agree, things like that are happenning all the time but many DDs
just don't know and Canonical is failing to inform the community how
and where they're helping. I think they're just saying that they're
helping a lot.
> (...)
--
Gustavo Franco
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