<quote who="Andreas Tille" date="Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:52:00AM +0200"> > On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > >I agree with Anthony points out. > > I do not. That's alright. If we all agreed already it wouldn't be worth talking about. :) > >Forks *can* improve Debian. > > s/can\(.*\)./might perhaps\1, if .../ > > ... but what if not? If I fork Debian-Med because the two of of us can't get along and I never give back to you and neither of us monitor what each other is doing, we *all* lose. I think it's in all of our interests -- and is our even responsibility -- as developers to minimize duplication of work while serving as diverse a group of users as possible. Sometimes a fork -- if done well and designed so that it gives back and stays close to its parent project -- is a good way to do this. Sometimes it's not. AIUI, this was Anthony's point. I hope it's clear that I'm not saying that *all* forks are good. I am saying that some forks can be net gains for everyone. I'm also saying that since we are not going to eliminate all forks of Debian, we should pursue a policy of bringing into the Debian those projects that we can and to work on turning the remaining forks into the good, positive helpful kind. :) Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill mako@debian.org http://mako.cc/
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