Re: Only 2 port maintainers?

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 04:32:51PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> > Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > I'm not volunteering.  I have no motivation to work on Debian in any
> > > meaningful manner.  I long ago lost common cause with the hard-core
> > > Debian folks who value ideological purity over providing a useful system.
> > Hmm, either I'm not hard-core or things have changed since :-)
>
> Or maybe you are hard-core and nothing's changed?
>
>  - GFDL docs still in non-free?  Check.

Only if they contain Invariant Sections which means for instance that 
Gnome and KDE docs are in main...

>  - firmware still considered as program, not data?  Check.
>  - Definition of 'software' stretched to mean 'any set of bits' rather
>    than 'program'?  Check.
>  - 'Editorial changes' still in place in social contract?  Check.

None of this is something which is decided by Debian hard-cores, but by 
the majority of the project...

> > Though you're free to do what you want, I think you would be a valuable
> > port maintainer...
>
> Probably.  I was valuable before.  I have no enthusiasm for working with
> a bunch of people whose attitudes are so disjoint from mine.  I derive
> much more pleasure from working on non-Debian projects (many of which
> are upstream for Debian, so in a way I still contribute, but not in a
> way which brings me into contact with the idiots who control Debian).

Ok, I respect your decision.

Cheers

Luk