Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This might be a bit harsh WRT the distribution itself. Too much > open input can lead to a lot of haggling over diverse viewpoints on > this or that alternative (not that we haven't had a bit of that > anyhow).
Open input is good, in general. If you want to guarantee haggling, do it on a mailing list. If you don't want haggling, have input sent to a responsible party. Most Debian contributors seem to think every issue concerns everyone, everyone debates on everything, everything goes very slowly. If you want to speed things up, I suggest these initial steps: - Send bug reports only to the maintainer, mirror them on a WWW-site. (A good example -- http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html) Maybe also send them to packages that are related. Mirroring the bugs to debian-devel was a stupid idea from the beginning, IMHO. - Try to send comments to the maintainer, unless it's something that really concerns everyone. Dan -- Daniel Quinlan Member of the League for Programming Freedom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
