On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 01:38:04AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >> The infrastructure is essential for our distribution, same for > >> documentations an translations. I can't see a reason why such people > >> should not be able to become DDs.
> > Because it implies a professional "priest caste" separate from the > > developers who will inevitably drift away and lose the perspective needed to > > understand the concerns of people actually working on the distro? > No, because a lot of infrastructure stuff takes so much time that it is almost > not possible to maintain packages probably anymore. Remember, people have a > real > life, too. I think this could be said equally as accurately that people who work on the infrastructure put all their time into it to the exclusion of package work - yielding the opposite conclusion to yours. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
