On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:10, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > towards "making Debian", and the ftpmasters are doing a decent chop of > > things too. > > Sure, and I won't say the contrary. But having a great infrastructure > (which is the case) and great people doing good work is of no help in > making Debian if you haven't got any packages. We have some 10k+ > packages, only a fraction of them are actually maintained by those > people.
Looking at efforts for coordination and doing the needed work for a stable release (tracking RC bugs, D-I, security support, buildd administration) the ratio is exactly the other way. Debian is Debian/stable. Removing those working primarily on releasing would leave only a shell of Debian behind. Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir über ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15
