Le vendredi 27 août 2010 à 07:14 +0200, Christian PERRIER a écrit : > It was indeed really interesting to see (at DebConf) the funny way > that all talks about such topics were mentioning "the Debian > derivatives" when, indeed, all that they were talking about was > Ubuntu. As I told to Matt Zimmermann later on in a private discussion, > this sometimes sounds like ack'ing that Ubuntu is indeed very special > as a Debian derivative (because of its prevalence) is something we are > really scared of.
Does it mean that we should treat it specially? It is not only a matter of prevalence, it is also a matter of preserving the rules of equity in the project. I don’t recall us treating HP differently from our other sponsors when they were (still are?) the largest one. > I don't see handling Ubuntu in some special way in DDPO (as proposed > in this discussion) as such an horrendous thing. Couldn't we simply > ack the fact that having a bug report rate that is 10 times higher > than the one in "core" Debian is making it special in some way? Yes, it is special in some way. Is it special in a way that is in relevant for us? That’s where lie my doubts. -- .''`. : :' : “You would need to ask a lawyer if you don't know `. `' that a handshake of course makes a valid contract.” `- -- J???rg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1282913592.25321.36.ca...@meh
