Re: Custom undocumented(7)s are just as bad.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:54:08AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Seth" == Seth R Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu> writes:
> No. But anyone who can't figure what a binary is doing after
> looking at the sources and comments and other docs, and who is not
> willing to go ask the author/ mailing list, should not be packaging
> that program.
Well, put that way ...
> Seth> Our large community model just doesn't allow for maintainers to
> Seth> spend all day working on their programs -- to expect otherwise
> Seth> would alienate many.
>
> Question: would the distribution quality really suffer if we
> did alienate them?
Probably not, at least right away. However, in the long run, if Debian gets
a reputation for being beligerant to its developers, people might move to
other distros or other free unices -- depriving Debian of perhaps their
future good work.
I am just not a fan of "if you can't figure it out, then drop out" --
perhaps a softer wording would be more to my tastes. :)
Manoj, thanks.
:)
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