On Sun, Sep 28 2008, Satish Chandra wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> Even though Ubuntu doesn't contribute development wise, they have an
> important contribution - a large user base who can serve as testers. I
> myself am not much knowledgeable with how Linux works, but have reported two
> gnome usability bugs which were reported upstream and were fixed. In recent
> years, Canonical's role in popularizing Linux is not insignificant. I feel
> that it is as important a contribution as submitting patches.
What is the point of having testers when the benefit is not
passed on upstream to benefit everyone? That is the critical point in
Greg's talk. Ubuntu efforts benefit Ubuntu. They are not close source,
but unlike the rest of the free software world, they make no effort to
feed any changes back upstream.
The way things work with changes are that if you make changes,
you pass them to the upstream developer, using their preferred means of
communication: that mean you use their mailing lists, their bug
tracking system, rebasing the changes to hteir release, and not mixing
in your own rebrancding changes or changes upstream made that you
cherry picked into one giant diff kept behind a locked door in the
basement with the words "Beware of the leopard" on the locked door.
manoj
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