Re: [poll] Ubuntu column on DDPO visible by default?
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 02:53:12PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 27 août 2010 à 07:14 +0200, Christian PERRIER a écrit :
> > It was indeed really interesting to see (at DebConf) the funny way
> > that all talks about such topics were mentioning "the Debian
> > derivatives" when, indeed, all that they were talking about was
> > Ubuntu. As I told to Matt Zimmermann later on in a private discussion,
> > this sometimes sounds like ack'ing that Ubuntu is indeed very special
> > as a Debian derivative (because of its prevalence) is something we are
> > really scared of.
>
> Does it mean that we should treat it specially? It is not only a matter
> of prevalence, it is also a matter of preserving the rules of equity in
> the project. I don’t recall us treating HP differently from our other
> sponsors when they were (still are?) the largest one.
[...]
In this regard, I don't believe it is being treated specially. I expect
the DDPO maintainers would be happy to add links to other distributions'
bug trackers if they have per-package information. My understanding is
that Ubuntu is the only one that has such information that can be linked
to.
Ben.
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