[All the following only reflect my sole opinion based on my limited contribution to Debian, and may not even reflect the reality.]
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I hereby resign from both the debian-science and debian-med maintainer > team in Debian. > I am not able to produce any good work within those teams, so remove > me from the Uploaders field on next upload. Thanks. I was privately asked to comment on this decision, so as to understand what could be changed or improved. I am not going to enter in a long thread, for which I'll be the sole reader. So in summary: 1. Debian aims to be "the universal operating system". This means that <insert exotic arch> needs a little love, even if this is not the actual desktop used by scientists. 2. Debian is still just an OS with some user level programs. Particular attention is needed to help -release team for ABI compatibility issues, and more generally API compatibility (program level). 3. Other teams (debian-python, debian-java...) are organized by languages. They have a clear (per language) policy for stating if a package is in good shape or not. 4. Debian scientific groups are organized as single person team. If the package "just work" for solving their actual scientific problem, then everything is just fine. There is in some case very little mutualisation. Because all of the above goes against my own intuitions, I think I'll be able to provide better results working on other packages. Again this is my *sole* opinion, I am not going to ask any group to change anything, this has been working great for others so far. -M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ca+7wusyvgrtw43tqean8bxzpql0bqw69c4dkj9m296mwrwp...@mail.gmail.com
