On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:54:08AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Seth" == Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. But anyone who can't figure what a binary is doing after > looking at the sources and comments and other docs, and who is not > willing to go ask the author/ mailing list, should not be packaging > that program.
Well, put that way ... > Seth> Our large community model just doesn't allow for maintainers to > Seth> spend all day working on their programs -- to expect otherwise > Seth> would alienate many. > > Question: would the distribution quality really suffer if we > did alienate them? Probably not, at least right away. However, in the long run, if Debian gets a reputation for being beligerant to its developers, people might move to other distros or other free unices -- depriving Debian of perhaps their future good work. I am just not a fan of "if you can't figure it out, then drop out" -- perhaps a softer wording would be more to my tastes. :) Manoj, thanks. :) -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
