Em Sex, 2005-12-30 às 07:56 +1100, skaller escreveu: > > So come up with a better way and show it to everybody, please. > > I'm trying. Don't expect a complete working plan though!
So don't act as if it were a complete working and flawless plan, please. Debian has also been trying to come up with something ideal for several years now, and while it is not perfect, it at least assures a certain level of reliability for the system. > > > I have learned how Debian packaging is done -- > > > not very well, but I did build my own package. > > > > Don't you think that is a pretty good reason not to let everyone upload > > their packages? > > OK. So 'not everyone'. Wikipedia was an extreme > example. Even then, do you think you are ready to upload a package to the Debian archive? Would you trust Debian enough to install it on your machine and any other machine that may require any degree of trust if there were people with upload privileges that have not had their skills checked to a bare minimum? > How about someone who is regularly maintaining just > one or two packages? They're committed to Debian and to the > package -- but they're not as committed to Debian as a DD. People usually maintain the packages they have interest in, and as many of those as they want. If it is not maintaining but uploading for other people, as people have told you before, you cannot expect that there is someone (or many people, as your suggestion requires) willing to do only the uninteresting job. If you argue that it is not *only* that, then it is no different from the sponsorship program. I have not tried to come up with some serious numbers, but I assume that if every developer sponsored two packages, we would cover all the current sponsorees and probably many more. > Diplomacy is not my strong point. And sometime niceness > just doesn't work as well as stirring up a hornets nest :) Stirring up a hornet nest will only get the hornets furious with you and will not result in any good besides your getting hurt. -- Guilherme de S. Pastore (fatalerror) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]