Leon Brooks wrote: > I personally think that: > > 1. Mandrake will survive their little crisis handily; and > > 2. Mandrake the distro and MandrakeSoft would both benefit if they > took a leaf out of Debian's book. > > Mandrake has the most intense and generally loyal user community of any > commercial Linux distro. Debian has the most intense and loyal of any, full > stop.
A lot of your suggestions already do occur, at least unofficially and in my experience ... dependant on the packager (aka Sly is quite happy to take samba SRPMs from me and rebuild with no changes). But, I agree, it should be formalised and managed. Lenny needs to scale. Also, I think it would be useful to have a stable-release bugilla, or at least allow bug reports against stable releases in bugzilla, but those reports would not be cc'ed to cooker, but to a stable-maintainers list. Vince has mentioned the need for this on the expert list. > And hey, it's kind of happening anyway, in some degree. Isn't it, Texstar, > Ranger, Borg, Pengiun Liberation Front, Thac and others? Why not have a plan > for managing all that positive energy? Ranger (me in case you've missed my sig) hardly packages anything that doesn't first go to MandrakeClub on it's way to contrib ... but I'm maintaining a few too many already (and can't believe how Gotz, Guillaume Rousse and a few others maintain so many packages, I still have about 5 on my rebuild list ...). I would like to see Thac's RPMs (at least those on Club, maybe more) in contrib (ardour etc), and surely Gotz or someone could get his stuff in in the meantime? And it would be cool to see kernel maintainers take more patches from contributors (Danny's work on the kernel in MandrakeClub has been very good, Juan could have a working supermount and maybe even preempt kernel with very little effort on his part). PLF is well maintained, and incompatible with being in a distro, so should stay as it is. Would love to see Tex and Borg cooperating with the rest (ie not building packages that conflict with PLF packages etc). Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
