Le Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 01:45:40PM +0200, Hector Oron a écrit : > > I totally agree. For one thing, it seems that new maintainers look > after having something new into Debian, which we already are full of > it. I would say that it is more worth to support good orphaned > software than yet another useless stuff. > > Besides maintainers role, there are more roles in Debian (porting, > managment, quality assurance, translators, conference organizers, > admins, etc...) So I do not believe the "how many packages do you > maintain?" is a good metric to measure a DD work and if he should > retire the project.
I think that the number of packages one contribute to get removed from the archive should be added to the metric, since it is a task that sometimes is a decathlon that requires perseverance, social skills, and a good knowledge of Debian's mechanisms and procedures. Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100703124256.ga23...@kunpuu.plessy.org
