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Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg



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On 05/09/14 20:46, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Daniel Pocock:
>> 
>>>> c) offer a paid review service.  FTP masters and assistants
>>>> can sell their time through an auction process.  [...]
>>> 
>>> I hope this is a joke.
>> 
>> Not entirely I was not suggesting people would pay to have their
>> packages approved. Only that there would be payment for
>> consideration.
> 
> I recall that the last time we went through this sort of argument, 
> numerous people have stated quite unequivocally that as soon as
> there is any sort of direct monetary compensation for participating
> in some Debian tasks, they're outta here.
> 
> I don't think that has changed, and thus I believe that the net
> amount of work done for Debian is most likely to *de*crease if
> somebody does that kind of thing.
> 
> TL;DR: Do Not Go There.

Well, I did give the disclaimer that this was just a list of ideas to
start discussion - it would be really helpful to have other potential
ideas too.

There is already the appearance of commercial activity in derivatives
and it can also undermine motivation for people when they upload
something to Debian and they see it in a commercially funded
derivative distribution before it passes the NEW queue and appears in
Debian itself.  In the case of one of my own uploads, this appeared to
be pure co-incidence but I can imagine cases where the packager may
get a bad impression.

One way to deal with this may be to suggest that if something is
accepted by Ubuntu while waiting in NEW and if it passes an automated
scan for binary content and blacklisted license texts, it could be
automatically accepted in Debian.

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