On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:08:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Distors are often viewed as mere packagers, but they tend to drive > upstream development in variety of ways. Here's just a few of Debian's > contributions to the world of FLOSS during 2006: > > * creation of cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools, due to a change of licence > which happened to be DFSG-incompatible > * rebranding of Firefox to Iceweasel due to trademark issues > * rebranding of Seamonkey to Iceape due to trademark issues > * rebranding of Thunderbird to Icedove due to trademark issues > > There must be so much more, in which case I hope you may add to this > list, and if there's enough contributions, maybe a wiki page could be > set up and advertised.
You have your priorities wrong. A fork and three rebrandings are more like nuisances compared to for example the bug reports that Debian maintainers forwarded to upstream, without or with fixes. Sure, maybe those aren't PR-friendly, but they count, and they are the heart of our contribution IMO. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]