Dear Debianites,
We are planning a series of usability tests with a group of students,
the first round to be run this coming week. We have scheduled our first
pilot test on Tuesday (Aug 22), and appointments with volunteer testers
start on Thursday (Aug 24).
The first phase of the project aims to
* Dominik George [230818 17:52]:
> Debian is not ..., it is an operating system.
This is simply and blatantly incorrect. Debian is a distribution.
It includes an operating system and many, many application packages that
different people find useful or interesting. The vast majority of
packages
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 02:35:18PM -0400, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 2:29 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > The reasons why the FTP masters might reject a package from the archive
> > are public [0]. Nowhere on the list is there an entry that says
> > "somebody doesn't li
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 07:11:11PM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> >The mission you have chosen for yourself, then, is to identify all those
> >things in the Debian distribution that are not constitutive of an
> >operating system.
>
> That is a major part of the work of a Debian Developer, and the
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 2:29 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> The reasons why the FTP masters might reject a package from the archive
> are public [0]. Nowhere on the list is there an entry that says
> "somebody doesn't like this package" or "it has stuff that might offend
> someone" as a valid rea
>The mission you have chosen for yourself, then, is to identify all those
>things in the Debian distribution that are not constitutive of an
>operating system.
That is a major part of the work of a Debian Developer, and the ftp-master team.
Packages are evaluated for eligibility to enter the dist
Le Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 07:46:51PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson a écrit :
>
> "Debian is not X, it's an operating system" is an old trope
Well, X is only one month old, and Debian is 30 years old, so the
comparison is not fair. This said, X contains many more fortunes than
Debian, and for many mor
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