On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Le Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:35:51AM -0700, Mike Bird a écrit : > > > > > Debian is losing users and relevance. > > This does not match the results of the "popcon" survey. It could be > that Debian would gain users slower than other distributions, but this > claim would need to be backed by a serious study. > > Also, as Ubuntu seems to be the point of focus for this comparison, I > would rather add their users rather than setting them in a separate > count. I have prepared packages and fixed bug in Debian for Ubuntu > users, and I guess I am not the only one on this list. > > > > > The next DPL should have a solid plan for reversing Debian's decline. > > If this means that some architectures fall by the wayside for lack of > > interest then so be it. Better to lose several 0.1% architectures > > than for Debian as a whole to continue the slide towards irrelevance. > > I think this is a confrontational presentation of the problem because it > supposes that there must be a loser. While I also think that trying to > build the whole Universal Operating Sytem on non-universal hardware is a > source of unnecessary and unrewarded stress and efforts, I feel that the > way to ameliorate Debian is to make its internal processes more > fault-tolerant, which is the exact contrary of dropping an arch.
Exactly. Debian is doing well. Ondrej
