On Tuesday 30 September 2008 06:18:32 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > And Ubuntu's effort in feeding back patches to Debian have > not really impressed the Debian developers that much (apart, perhaps, > from those being paid by Mark).
So, let me get this straight. You find the efforts of full-time dedicated Canonical staff contributing back to Debian ok. Your problem is with the *users* not contributing back to Debian? And that surprises you? Maybe you have forgotten the profile of end-users that current crop of Linux distros like Ubuntu, Fedora address. Debian requires non-trivial understanding of a desktop OS from it's users. So it's users are more likely to contribute back with quite some detail. The kind of interface that Ubuntu/Fedora is moving to, is precisely to remove that kind of technical expectation from the end users. Given that goal, it is but obvious that the kind of feedback you people will get will be less detailed. Take a look at the bugs of Ubuntu as compared to the bugs of Debian and you will find the difference. The bugs of Ubuntu are generally like "this does not work! somebody please fix this!". The bugs of Debian are like "this does not work! I looked here and there and this is what I found. Here is what you might be doing". It is a qualitative difference. And it is inevitable. That is what is going to happen when you take Linux to the masses. Face it! :) If you disagree and say you do not want such users, I am sorry, but you and I see different futures for Linux. - Sandip _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
