On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:15:43PM +0000, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > as a conclusion of many discussions at DebConf5, I propose to > maintain all packages by teams. A fine way to do this, is by > having a pkg- project at alioth.debian.org. It is useful to > invite non-DDs, esp. upstream developers and people from Debian > derivatives to participate in such teams.
I think the goal is good, but the implementation is not. Why not rather move towards a more BSD approach, where any developer can commit changes to any package? It would work around having the awkwardness of finding members of a team, or alternately, having to convince someone to let you join a particular team. What's more, alioth takes a lot of time to work with. I often do development on machines that are not connected to the 'net at a given time, and upload packages later. I would have no problem hosting my darcs repository on alioth, but I would have a problem having to go to alioth every time I upload a new version, or every time I upload a new package, or whatnot. If it can be integrated in a sane fashion with other parts of Debian, then fine. Otherwise, if it costs me time, I want nothing to do with it. Time I spend mucking around on alioth is time I'm not spending fixing bugs or adding features. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
