Re: Resignation from the debian-med/debian-science maintainer team
[All the following only reflect my sole opinion based on my limited
contribution to Debian, and may not even reflect the reality.]
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hereby resign from both the debian-science and debian-med maintainer
> team in Debian.
> I am not able to produce any good work within those teams, so remove
> me from the Uploaders field on next upload. Thanks.
I was privately asked to comment on this decision, so as to understand
what could be changed or improved.
I am not going to enter in a long thread, for which I'll be the sole
reader. So in summary:
1. Debian aims to be "the universal operating system". This means that
<insert exotic arch> needs a little love, even if this is not the
actual desktop used by scientists.
2. Debian is still just an OS with some user level programs.
Particular attention is needed to help -release team for ABI
compatibility issues, and more generally API compatibility (program
level).
3. Other teams (debian-python, debian-java...) are organized by
languages. They have a clear (per language) policy for stating if a
package is in good shape or not.
4. Debian scientific groups are organized as single person team. If
the package "just work" for solving their actual scientific problem,
then everything is just fine. There is in some case very little
mutualisation.
Because all of the above goes against my own intuitions, I think I'll
be able to provide better results working on other packages.
Again this is my *sole* opinion, I am not going to ask any group to
change anything, this has been working great for others so far.
-M
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