Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 01:38:04AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> >> The infrastructure is essential for our distribution, same for
> >> documentations an translations. I can't see a reason why such people
> >> should not be able to become DDs.
> > Because it implies a professional "priest caste" separate from the
> > developers who will inevitably drift away and lose the perspective needed to
> > understand the concerns of people actually working on the distro?
> No, because a lot of infrastructure stuff takes so much time that it is almost
> not possible to maintain packages probably anymore. Remember, people have a real
> life, too.
I think this could be said equally as accurately that people who work on the
infrastructure put all their time into it to the exclusion of package work -
yielding the opposite conclusion to yours.
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