On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:20:32PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > I haven't seen any such proposals (beyond "add LSB compliance" and > > "new X"); I wouldn't really expect to either -- far easier and better > > to just make the improvements, license them freely, and put them out > > for use and comment simultaneously. Which is to say, create a fork. > Are you saying that it is better and easier to create a fork than work on > improving Debian? I don't get that sorry,
Creating a fork is a *means* of improving Debian. Two choices: * write up a document about how something could be done differently to how Debian does it, send it out for comment * demonstrate how to do something differently than Debian does it, make it usable, make it public, and ask for comments I think it's obvious the second way is better: it's more concrete -- there's an actual implementation out there, which means that you can't just gloss over details, or give people the wrong idea about what you're talking about due to imprecise language; it's a shorter path from discussion to implementation -- it just needs to be included in Debian if that's what's decided, rather than implemented first, and rediscussed some more; and it helps users out while it's being discussed. This isn't subtle or arcane. Cheers, aj
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