[..] > Future A: > > There are now 10,000 DD's and over 100,000 packages, most nobody uses, they > are just there because they were needed by people who wanted to become DD's. > Now that they are, those unused packages are ignored. A major upload > occures and now there are 30,000 bugs on the BTS. Over 10,000 remain for > months on these packages nobody cares about. The media speculates Debian > will never again be stable, look at the bugs!!! Those who want to be DD's > scramble for even more pointless packages, even more future bugs that will But why would you want to become a DD if you are not willing to maintain a package. Debian is just about maintaining packages. I agree there are other ways to contribute to Debian, but not much which do not involve being responsible for a package. I'm not a DD, and would like to become one to vote in some cases and to help more effectively in some (rare) cases. I already have a package which I maintain in the archive (and), mostly because I needed it, and it was being orphaned (well, to tell the truth, it was not maintained for a long time despite several important bugs), so I contacted the maintainer and took it over. But this is not my main contribution to Debian, I propose patches and close bugs for many packages I personally use or need for customers, and this is not recognized currently as sufficient for becoming a DD... and I'm not the only one.
> be ignored. People that do wan to fix some bugs won't know how and will > apply for help from those who know nothing about their package and could > care less. The bugs remain. This DD goes MIA in frustration. [..] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]