On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 10:15, Joey Hess wrote: > So there seems to be a lot of confusion on this thread about how various > architectures influence the debian installer. Let me try to clear some > of the incorrect statements up.. > [***SNIP!!!***] > - "debian is hard to install because of politics" > [***SNIP!!!***] > > Then there is a small group of people who have day jobs which involve > installing or selling debian, or who have installed debian more than > ten times in a given day. These people are very interested in making > the installation better, so they work on that. Some of them create > debian-derived distributions for specific targets, and not all of > their work ends up rolled back into debian. Some few are able to use > debian directly and make larger contributions to the installer. There > are very few of these folk, and they're still being pulled in all > different directions, seeing different requirements, being interested > in installing debian on different hardware, and so on. This doesn't > make for fast progress in any given direction. > > Folk move between these various categories all the time. This doesn't > smell of politics to me. I'd add that many of the names I am seeing connected with the installer, I see on many, many other aspects of significant and active parts of the Debian Project - these are people that aren't necessarily acquitted with person-years of time to dedicate to an additional project. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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