On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 20:10 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm not seeing any signs that Ubuntu actually wants to take over what > Debian is the best at, which is maintaining a very broad range of packages > at high quality. Notice the number of folks who start doing Debian > packaging because they want to introduce their packages upstream of > Ubuntu, and the number of less-widely-used packages that are maintained > entirely in Debian and just imported into Ubuntu. > > Ubuntu has full-time developer resources available to focus on certain > core work, which means they can drive archive-wide changes faster than we > can and can do focused development on specific priorities often easier > than we can. Having centralized decision-making also helps with both of > those. But they're not as good at the things that large pools of > volunteers are good at, like maintaining lots of packages that are of > interest to small groups of people. > > I think the relationship is fairly synergistic, honestly.
Well... I hope you're right :) Reading however Shuttleworth's blog[0] makes me really worried about what Ubuntu may mean to opensource... reads a lot like non-open development in secrecy just to be as cool and media-attractive as companies like Apple. Anyway... that discussion was just thought about the bug numbers originally... and I guess everything has been said already. And as I was privately notified that my contributions to Debian are too little for writing a lot at debian-devel... so EOT here for me, too. Cheers, Chris. [0] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1200
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