Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:09:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:35:51PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:19:32PM +0100, Pete van der Spoel wrote: Or is the whole Ubuntu thing (where I understand Mark Shuttleworth has hired a large

Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:15:00PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:09:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:35:51PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:19:32PM +0100, Pete van der Spoel wrote: Or is the whole Ubuntu

Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:15:00PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:09:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Fortunately, that is not the case with Canonical. Yes it is. Fork and forget is Canonical's modus operandi (despite all the PR claiming otherwise). Being in a

RE: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Pete van der Spoel
-Original Message- From: Manoj Srivastava To: debian-project@lists.debian.org Sent: 12/1/04 8:41 PM Subject: Re: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:19:32 +0100, Pete van der Spoel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We don't have any use for money right now. What

Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:28:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:15:00PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:09:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Fortunately, that is not the case with Canonical. Yes it is. Fork and forget is Canonical's

Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:23:44AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:15:00PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:09:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:35:51PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at

Re: FW: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:22:57PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: Being in a position of judging the facts without preconceptions, I can point to plenty more that aren't. The fact that not _everything_ has been submitted yet still doesn't support your (exaggerated) argument. That figure will

Re: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Pete van der Spoel wrote: What about having a small financial reward for each release critical bug that is squashed? Just to heat up the discussion a bit: Why should $some_developer get a reward for popping up just before a release while other work on the distribution continuesly with large

Re: Mail forwarding in return for Debian donation

2004-12-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:19:32 +0100, Pete van der Spoel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We don't have any use for money right now. What we have mostly just sits in a bank account getting slowly devalued by inflation. So fund raising exercises aren't really a good idea. Oh. Okay at least I don't