The Wanderer wrote: ... > By taking on yourself the risk and burden of running sid, you are > volunteering to be one of those who helps notice issues before they > reach testing, and report those issues so that the machinery of the > archive can stop the package versions which those issues from migrating > to testing. Ideally, you are also volunteering to be one of those who > helps the package maintainers track down and fix the issues.
there is no such contract. just like Debian Developers and other volunteers are not forced to do work they would not wish to do. however, Debian Developers and others do have a social agreement and other rules they do pledge to abide by. a simple user? anyone using any version, there's no contract we agree to for such use. > -- And, by doing that, you are volunteering to help protect those who do > *not* run sid from having to encounter those issues. It's an admirable > thing to do, really, if you have the time and energy and so forth to > spare for it. > > (I just doubt whether a lot of those who currently run sid understand > that that is what they are volunteering for, given the pattern of "what > to update against" recommendations that I remember seeing, which was > rather at odds with what I expected and what I myself would have > recommended.) i usually run testing and parts of unstable, but also stable. i contribute where i can when i can, but i'm certainly not bound by any formal agreement or contract (nor could i real- istically honor one were it somehow attempted to be imposed). i understand your intent and that is how i feel myself but i would not state it so strongly. i consider it all on my best efforts and under the time contraints i have. sometimes i can be interrupted at any moment caring for a parent so that is a first priority no matter what. songbird
