Venture Communism <venturecommun...@yahoo.com> writes: > So let's get this straight.
> Step 1) Ask APT people if it belongs in APT > Get told to go to debian-project list > Step 2) Ask debian-project list if can put in APT > Get told doesn't belong in APT > Step 3) Fix proposal so it's not in APT, goes upstream as asked for, etc. > Get told to go tell another list You might even get the impression that the project is not particularly enthusiastic about the idea. :) More seriously, you really can't understate how much the project felt generally burned by the huge Dunc-Tank controversy. I was one of the people who thought it was a decent idea at the time, but the outcome was far more disruptive than I think it was worth. I think an earlier post from you mentioned that you didn't find a lot of good information on-line about it. There is an article at: http://archive09.linux.com/feature/59300 which isn't awful, but which more importantly has links to a variety of other articles and might be a good starting point to understand more about what happened. This is not directly relevant to the proposal to provide a way to locate upstream donation points; rather, it's about funding for Debian development directly. But that controversy is a good example of the general project leeriness towards sending money to people and a social analysis of the fallout provides some understanding of why. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y5a6dcl2....@windlord.stanford.edu