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Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation



On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:15:00PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:09:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:35:51PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:19:32PM +0100, Pete van der Spoel wrote:
> > > > Or is the whole Ubuntu thing (where I understand Mark Shuttleworth has hired
> > > > a large number of the senior Debian developers) considered to be the
> > > > solution to this problem?
> > > 
> > > Hiring developers away from a project, so that they no longer spend
> > > time on it, is not normally considered a good solution.
> > 
> > Fortunately, that is not the case with Canonical.
> 
> Yes it is. Fork and forget is Canonical's modus operandi (despite all
> the PR claiming otherwise).

Sounds like someone is ticked off that there's somebody out there who cares
about regular releases of an Arch client, and making one that's usable by
someone other than revision control gurus...

- Matt

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