Re: package ownership in Debian (was: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?)
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> [2006.07.28.1737 +0100]:
> > If Debian had slightly less of a culture of "Keep your hands off
> > my package", I'd do it here instead.
>
> I've been thinking about this a lot for the past week.
>
> Is there any way this could be changed?
Yes, and we could start by really enforcing co-maintainership. Make it 100%
mandatory for all essential, required and base packages at first.
Co-maintainers are much closer to what is being done in a package than
joe-random developer. Also, co-maintainership is far less prone to
fire-and-forget uploads that hose things, and are nicer to people who feel
very strongly about their packages.
IMO, if we could reach a better level of resilience, lower response times,
and agility with co-maintainership, it would be better than going to the
extreme Ubuntu did.
> Does Debian *want* it changed?
I personally would welcome it.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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