in recent years the debian packagers have focused on licensing, setting aside as much therefore important that the package works ..
I've noticed that some reports have response as "is not critical, is still working," or else "not reproducible", or better "u can made a patch u can made a fix u ca... u can.. u do that" co DD/DM has no time!!!!!! NO TIME!??
one can see that many DD have no experience in the software packages nature in charge .. l this is main reason why the quality / performance of debian packages has fallen, and because these characters to nosaber that I should do such software are not interested in doing sponsoring
the mayor injury are in electronic/science and gamming part
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Andreas Tille
<andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
Hi Paul,
thanks for your great analysis. I might like to stress explicitly one
item (even if I totally agree with all others in general)
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:37:10PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Specialization:
>
> Debian contributors generally work on stuff they use or are otherwise
> are interested in. This can limit the scope of software that gets
> sponsored. With well-functioning teams, it can also mean that software
> for a specific area is well covered with sponsorship, debian-med is a
> good example. Unfortunately can mean
[Your paragraph is ending a bit unexpected - perhaps you forget to type
something]
As one of the active sponsors in Debian Med I would really like to
stress this. I'm also trying to hint people about other teams they
could possibly approach because I have the feeling that the sponsorship
in *any* *working* team works quite good. There are teams formed around
technical issues like languages (pkg-perl, python modules etc.) and
there are teams targeting at end users that try to create an outright
system for a specific target user group. The technical term in Debian
is "Debian Pure Blends" in short "Blends". You can find a list of those
Blends here:
http://blends.alioth.debian.org/
Please note that not all Blends work equally well and some of these are
dead / dying - but perhaps you might dive into this field and help
vitalising this team. In any case if you have a package that to some
extend fits into the scope of the Blends teams (or the technical teams
I mentioned above) you should definitely contact their mailing list in
addition to Debian mentors.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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