Le ven 28 juillet 2006 19:15, Fabio Tranchitella a écrit : > 2. There isn't an easy way to check if the maintainer of a package is > actually working on the feature/patch which I would like to > upload, or just to work togheter. Yes, I know that several packages > are maintained in CVS/SVN/bzr/what-ever-else, but the repositories > are not centralized and a lot of maintainers don't use revision > control systems at all. and that won't happen because I'm not very keen on leraning yet another VCS, and that other's think the same, and that you will find poeple that never used svn or just can't use it, and poeple that never used bzr or don't like it , or ... what makes Ubuntu able to do this, is that there is a big someone that can tell: every package is maintained in bzr, and those who don't agree get fired. (exagerated of course, it's just the general idea). Moreover, not having strong maintainership in Ubuntu lead to some obscure package to be completely neglected, and some are in a not satisfying shape. I attribute that to the fact that nobody is really responsible for the package if eventually nobody cares about it. I don't say debian does not have problems with some packages, I just say that in that case, there is an obvious person to blame. Even teams are OK in that regard, because teams are generally small (wrt the number of DD's). So IMHO, something has to be done so that integration can be easier, e.g. making so called NMU be more easily accepted, so that nobody/noone/nothing can prevent an actual enhancement of the distro to go on. But one should /still/ be responsible for that or that package, this is what makes debian special, and I will defend it. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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