On Sunday 03 December 2000 21:39, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Brendan Cully ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001203 21:18]: > > The maintainer has a lot of responsibility for integrating all these > > contributions in a sane way, so that changes don't break systems, > > don't break upgrades, don't break removals, and work with the rest of > > the debian system. You can't do these things reliably without a good > > amount of knowledge about the package system, and some experience on > > top of that. > > Quite a limited perspective, wouldn't you agree? As if Debian was only > about packages?
That's not limited perspective but requirements for a fundamental knowledge about Debian, like a primary school. > And this way you create a new bottleneck: the webmaintainer collects the > webpatches, the hurd maintainer collects all the hurd patches etc.... > > Look at the linux kernel for an example of a one person bottleneck. > Quality and speed of releases is not improving. I can not agree about a quality (see discussions on kernel.org) but personally I don't care about "an improving speed of releases" to much until Debian is a non-commercial distribution. > Then call him a developer. You are right: Maintainers maintain packages, > developer develop new stuff. Nope. Debian maintaners maintain packages and, if it's necessary, make (lots of) patches. -- Mariusz Przygodzki | Good judgement comes from experience. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Experience comes from bad judgement. http://www.dune.home.pl | GPG KeyID: 0x42FAD771 GPG Fingerprint: 1990 F07B FFB4 BE0B FF26 10C2 BE2B 965C 42FA D771
