On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Martin Pool wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:10:45 -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Hans Reiser wrote: > >> Ed has graciously agreed to restore the credits, and I thank Debian for > >> its respect for the wishes of the original author in regards to > >> prominently crediting those who have contributed. > > > > Again, what does Debian(as a community/organization) have to do with a > > maintainer fixing a minor bug? > > Imagine you are the developer of some random piece of free software. You > don't necessarily use Debian; you certainly don't understand all its > systems and protocols. > > The conventional way to get in touch with the developers of a free > software project to raise an issue is to write to the -devel list. It's > not surprising that this is what people do with debian.
I think you missed the thrust of Adam's comment (and previous missives on the same topic). Hans is thanking "Debian" for an action, when the project as a whole (the entity typically referred to by the name "Debian") has taken no such action. This flamewar might be a good reminder to everyone why it's a useful idea to keep in good contact with your upstreams - that way, they can come and pester you with problems instead of setting the whole project off into a paroxym of "heated" messages (to say the least). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16
