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Re: package ownership in Debian



On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:46:58PM +0000, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> On 7/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> >On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:16:53 +0000, Gustavo Franco 
> ><gustavorfranco@gmail.com> said:
> >
> >> On 7/29/06, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 02:49:34AM +0000, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> >>> > Hello, i thought Debian project was a big team. If people here
> >>> > don't want to work in a team, we're going nowhere.
> >>>
> >>> Two words for you: Fred Brooks.
> >
> >> More two for you: Be polite.
> >
> >        What is so impolite in pointing you to an excellent reference,
> > and gently reminding you that increasing team size (to, say, the
> > number of Debian contributors)  is detrimental to product quality and
> > ability to deliver on time?
> 
> Manoj, it's clear he was trolling, it was far from gently reminding me, 
> come on.

Just because you leap into the boat, doesn't mean I was fishing.

- Matt



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