Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Prefix
Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages! If we have a look at the maintainers of the packages in the Pool, we will find none of the maintainers are the software developers themselves. May be the purpose of this strategy is to ensure software quality, because all of the so

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Prefix, On 20.09.2013 17:38, Prefix wrote: > What is more important is that, they know a lot more about their code than > us. If a large project like Firefox contain bugs in their code and can't work > well in Ubuntu, we have to waste a lot of time to learn the code tree, learn > the algo

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Coulson
Hi, On 20/09/13 16:38, Prefix wrote: > Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages! > > If we have a look at the maintainers of the packages in the Pool, we will > find none of the maintainers are the software developers themselves. Well, thanks Regards - Chris (Ubuntu's

Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread PillowSky
Post on ubuntuforum Link:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2175314 In the E-mail is just a summary. I find none of the maintainers are the software developers themselves. As for good developers like Mozilla, they have the ability to ensure the quality. I think it's not a good idea to assum

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 20 September 2013 12:40, PillowSky wrote: > I find none of the maintainers are the software developers themselves. > > It is in urgent need to accept the new strategy because many software > like LibreOffice are not update in time. So it is time to change! Except Ubuntu's LibreOffice maintaine

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 20.09.2013 17:54, Chris Coulson wrote: > On 20/09/13 16:38, Prefix wrote: >> If we have a look at the maintainers of the packages in the Pool, we will >> find none of the maintainers are the software developers themselves. > Well, thanks I think what Prefix wanted to say was that i

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
A Mozillian maintains the Mozilla packaged in Ubuntu albeit in the case of Firefox it is slightly different then what upstream ships and has some Canonical add-ons baked in. Upstream does not track performance data from Ubuntu's Firefox because of the differences from upstream. On Sep 20, 2013 9:

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Ubuntu was born less than 9 years ago. Of the most popular current distros, > it's among the youngest. The more mature Mozilla developers picked their > Linux distros before Ubuntu did more than a little maturing, 10-15 years > ago, so these mo

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-09-20 13:13 (GMT-0500) Jordon Bedwell composed: Felix Miata wrote: Ubuntu was born less than 9 years ago. Of the most popular current distros, it's among the youngest. The more mature Mozilla developers picked their Linux distros before Ubuntu did more than a little maturing, 10-15 ye

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:40 PM, PillowSky wrote: > Post on ubuntuforum > Link:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2175314 > In the E-mail is just a summary. > > I find none of the maintainers are the software developers themselves. I always try to get upstream to lead or at least be involv

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-09-21 00:40 (GMT+0800) PillowSky composed: Post on ubuntuforum Link:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2175314 In the E-mail is just a summary. I find none of the maintainers are the software developers themselves. Here's one reason why: Ubuntu was born less than 9 years ago.

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages

2013-09-20 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Freitag, den 20.09.2013, 14:06 -0400 schrieb Felix Miata: > On 2013-09-21 00:40 (GMT+0800) PillowSky composed: > > > Post on ubuntuforum > > Link:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2175314 > > In the E-mail is just a summary. > > > I find none of the maintainers are the software develope

Re: Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages (Prefix)

2013-09-20 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
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