I thought I should let you know, so that you hear it from me: I have accepted a job with Canonical, working on Ubuntu.
This shouldn't significantly affect my Debian packages or my participation on the Technical Committee (although the last week or so has been quite hectic and I have neglected to pay attention to the root passwords thread on debian-ctte, so I have some catching up to do). If I find that there's a specific conflict of interest I'll let people know, of course, and abstain in any votes etc. I think Ubuntu is a good thing for Debian precisely because it will take away some of Debian's users. Debian's open structure works better when it has somewhat less of everyone's attention focused on it; at the moment, we're swamped with users, people wanting to contribute, people wanting to change stuff, etc. - and this has made some of us defensive, erecting barriers to the world so that work can get done without being interrupted, flamed at, etc., all of the time. This is all quite controversial, of course, and I don't really have time to do justice to the flamewar that will no doubt follow. So my apologies in advance for that - but I thought you I should tell you my view. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]