On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:04:31AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:52:22 -0500, David Nusinow > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Sarge was already very late before Ubuntu existed. Our mirror network was > >already strained before Ubuntu existed. Our release team was struggling to > >get > >sarge out before Ubuntu existed. Our security team was already undermanned > >before Ubuntu existed. d-i was short on contributers and had a hard time > >releasing before Ubuntu existed. > > From what is public visible, the security team has lost at least one > of the active members to ubuntu with no replacement up to today.
We didn't "lose" him to Ubuntu. The man got a job and is busy. It would have been the same with any other job that keeps one busy. There's no grand Canonical Conspiracy [tm] to keep him from working on Debian. > And > d-i's effort is practically wasted since we decided for d-i because we > needed to support more architectures. If we had thrown out the > doorstops years ago, we could simply have taken one of the readily > available installers without rolling our own. No one is actually dropping those arches. They still have every option to release a stable release using d-i. Plus, d-i's architecture will pay off more and more over the future as it's adapted to do more and more things. Witness how quickly preseeding was added to it. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]