[Sandro Tosi, 2009-08-03] > Hey, but we give back (patches, improvements, bug reports) to upstreams :)
IIRC, I never used a patch from Ubuntu (let's be honest: their patches are usually not that good, at least the ones for packages in universe, see latest python2.6 transition for examples), but if you'll encourage them, they give something else - much more important IMHO - maintainers (manpower ;). I hang on #ubuntu-motu channel (with "python" highlighted by Irssi) and from time to time, I respond to Python related problems and if one is happy with my help, I add "you'll get more comments/help if you'll join one of our teams and maintain your package in Ubuntu via Debian" (i.e. I steal maintainers ;) and this way people like Scott, Emilio, Luca or Siegfried (+many others) maintain dozens of packages in Debian and know much more about packaging Python related stuff than many other DDs. My point is: * patches and bug reports are not the only way to contribute back * it is also up to us if we'll get some help or not (if you'll just complain, nobody will want to work with you) -- -=[ Piotr Ożarowski ]=- -=[ http://www.ozarowski.pl ]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
