Re: finally end single-person maintainership
On Tue, 2024-05-21 at 12:05 +0200, Philip Hands wrote:
>
> For anyone with an opinion, I'd suggest that you should try to make
> sure
> that DEP-14 reflects your opinion, and then work on getting people to
> adopt the use of DEP-14 and/or get DEP-14 accepted.
>
To be honest: in my opinion the whole DEP process is flawed. I doubt
that even the first DEP that created DEPs was had enough consent to be
accepted in general. It did just not bother enough people to be against
it and it made some others happy, so it was accepted to exist.
With the future more and more being container and cloud driven, I would
indeed rather see a Debian that is completely maintained in one
location, with as much CI and testing as possible. Keeping everything
reproducible and maybe - in the future - having a rolling release,
which requires these things.
Even if that means that we loose packages and developers. Which would
be sad, but I think healthy for a long term future of Debian.
I would rather see a small but very stable base distribution, with the
option to add features on top. Which do not necessarily need to be
maintained at the same place as Debian, but could use Debian's
infrastructure as its done now. Each "feature" could have its own
release cycle as it fits. Sury's PHP packaging would be a prime example
for that. We run thousands of PHP driven websites and rarely anyone
wants to use what Debian ships as stable (or even from a still
supported oldstable).
The radical way would be to GR this into place with a *long* grace
period. Risky, but better than having a big slow distribution nobody
needs anymore at some point.
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Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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