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Re: Listing of derivatives on the Debian website?



On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 10:52 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> Altough it's not necessarily trivial to evaluate your criteria:

We didn't want to give specific examples for many of them, since
different distros will have different ways of working.

> On Tue, 05 Sep 2017, Paul Wise wrote:
> >     <li>actively cooperate with Debian<li>
> 
> Hard to evaluate but can be assumed to be true when the distribution
> files bugs (and when they user tag the bugs).

Yep, this could take various other forms such as sponsoring DebConf,
maintaining packages in Debian, forwarding patches etc.

> >     <li>are actively maintained</li>
> 
> - new releases?

Some distros are rolling, "package updates happen" is fine for those.

> - people responding to queries/bug reports?

Seems reasonable.

> >     <li>are notable and established distributions</li>
> 
> Not very specific either:
> - notable? => how do you know popularity?

Notability and popularity can be different, for example Tails is
probably not as popular as Ubuntu but it is definitely notable.

I was thinking that having a Wikipedia page could demonstrate
notability, but we could also use our own judgement here.

> - established? => how old must the derivative be?

Maybe 1 or 2 years, at least it should be on distrowatch.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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