On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Yves Arrouye wrote: > Debian has some big advantages over any other distribution I know of > that make me want to contribute to Debian rather than another one. But > months for getting a membership, isn't that risking that new volunteers > will turn to Mandrake or Stampede for example, and work to put the nice > things that Debian has (best package management, all the tools to manage > alternatives / rc / cron / MIME / etc.) in them?
Yes, this is exactly the problem, and it's a big reason why I installed FreeBSD over Debian last night. I had hoped that the new school year would bring some energy to this project, but it's still the same old bickering, the same lack of forward movement, and new-maintainers still hasn't bothered to respond to my application (sent about 6 months ago). FreeBSD looks pretty good so far. Too bad it messes up /usr/local, but I can probably get used to that and put my own binaries somewhere else.
