On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, George Danchev wrote: > >to make it really clear let me specify that i'm not bashing Lucas > >for filing a bug here, nor the maintainers of hasciicam for giving > >it a very low priority: i'm trying to give an account "from below" > >on how things look to an upstream author. > > Maybe it is about time to be part of the solution. sure! that is my intention. but then once you are "inside" it's hard to consider how things look "from the outside". so i hope at least this discussion served to give such a picture. i've had the luck to interact with some of the best DD who, given access to upstream git repository, have given shape to some of the most complex yet well working autotools setups i've ever seen :D even becoming software contributors... so mine is really not a complaint about the human interaction, but about the automatised part, which doesn't presents opportunities for upstream developers to get into the debian flow and interact with its infrastructure, rather than sending them to upload stuff and beg mentors for attention. > I'd still suggest you reconsider the DM/DD links. sure i was already. it's my time to get bashed now on http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2011/04/msg00046.html ciao :) -- jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org GPG: B2D9 9376 BFB2 60B7 601F 5B62 F6D3 FBD9 C2B6 8E39 Bitcoin tip jar: 1EJYtvuq39hoWcventcnnvhPXh6i5QDReM
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