On 2015-07-26 23:57, Tsu Jan wrote: > [...] > Hi,
> All in all, it's weird that in spite of Dave's and my early warnings, > this problem still arose. I have not been following this from the beginning, so I do not know what said warning is. > Isn't Debian a community-based distro? Personally, I consider it primarily a "volunteer-based do-cracy distribution". 99% of everything that happens in Debian, happens because someone volunteers to do it and actually does it. Accordingly, getting Debian to move in a particular direction (or contain a particular package) involves motivating people to do it (with people possibly including oneself). > Or some Debian maintainers don't use Debian?! I believe Debian have some people contributing to Debian without using Debian (as primary system). Often they tend use a Debian-based derivative instead (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.). Please note the following statement from Debian's diversity statement[1]: """ We welcome contributions from everyone as long as they interact constructively with our community. """ As such, Debian does not (and will not) require that you (or any other contributor) must use a particular operation system as primary OS. Debian /does/ have some (technical) requirements to some contributions. E.g. packages for Debian must be built and tested on a Debian system (or in a Debian chroot). Thanks, ~Niels [1] https://www.debian.org/intro/diversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55b5c78a.7090...@thykier.net
