Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

[Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>]

Le Saturday 01 March 2008 17:44:01 Thijs Kinkhorst, vous avez écrit :
> On Saturday 1 March 2008 17:20, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> > It is also pointed out that there are central places, like security
> > fixes, where having too many packages leads to too much work. Sure, but
> > again, it's not related to choice, but to the overall size of the
> > distribution. Here again, the solution is not "less choice", but "more
> > people".
>
> It's unclear to me while the first solution is disqualified out of hand.
>
> I don't have a reason to believe that we will suddenly get lots more people
> out of nowhere (even besides ignoring the lower marginal benefit that every
> extra person adds).

Hey, seems you're confusing the original issue.

Indeed, here we have a potential maintainer proposing a new package, so it's 
exactly the converse: the package follows the new guy. 

So, yes sure, if we start crying about his very first package that's sure we 
won't "get lots more people out of nowhere"...



Romain