Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

["Gustavo Franco" <gustavorfranco@gmail.com>]

On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:23:33 -0500, John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> said:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 05:44:38PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> >> > If Debian had slightly less of a culture of "Keep your hands off
> >> > my package", I'd do it here instead.
> >>
> >> That seems understandable.  I'm keen on teams, but even more keen
> >> on a less "ownery" stance by package owners.
>
> > I agree.  We should do it like the BSDs: a tree that any developer
> > can commit to, for any package.
>
>         How would you handle dilution of responsibility?  Or too many
>  people making broad commits to to many packages without considering
>  the details of the particular package being touched?
>
>         When everyone is responsible for something, no one is
>  responsible.

Group admins. A group can have more than one admin, but at least one
is reachable and/or is leading the group (eg: python-modules, d-i), if
not the group organization is broken, but it happens more often with
the one man approach by default, IMHO.

regards,
-- stratus