On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:08:23PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > > BTW never forget that external archive can be as dangerous as usefull. > > Warn ALWAYS the user that is not an official repository and don't use it > > only for your own "glory".. help the official maintainer with what it will > > come out of its usage. > > Glory is an interesting choice of word.
I choose it carefully to underline what the Social Contract states: "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" basically (atleast in my specific case) when i started debian-ipv6 archive i did with a specific purpoues to give people something more, exactly like you do. But personally i do not care of getting "credits" for it. I am much more glad to share the credits inside the team since it is a work done by several people and developers (as you can read by my signature of which I am extremely proud :-) ). > Surely this is a win win situation for everybody? Any glory is really > going to upstream (OK me in my case) for writing the code > which others want, not to the packager, or maintainer of the debs. I agree with you. my concern is that sometimes people do not see that far inside what they have. not blaming anyone here but look at X for example. I did never see someone on irc saying: "hey cool they released X4.3 ... great job they did" but only things like: "hey Branden X4.3 is out when will you package it?". Probably we often forget that we are "only" (well me not yet :-) ) a layer between the upstream and the user. > I guess the only tricky part is knowing when a package is sufficiently > popular that it should go into Debian for real. I've not reached > that point with any of my little .debs, but I can imagine others > have. IMHO even the smallest bit is important. probably we are lacking a way to understand how users make use of that bit and understand how mush usefull is or not... -- drac (1.11-7) unstable; urgency=low * added IPv6 patch from the great IPv6 Team -- Noel Koethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 9 Feb 2003 19:33:00 +0100