On Thu May 6 05:37:30 +0000, <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote: >Thinking you need to say "no offense" is generally a good sign to avoid saying >what you are considering saying if you ?>actually care to avoid offense. > >My experience is rather the opposite. Most upstreams care about developing >their computer programs (as they should). >Packaging for a distro is rather >different and specialized. Having upstream involvement is great (and in in >some cases >essential), but upstream developers are not usually the best >distro maintainers. > >Where I'm upstream I don't attempt to insert myself in packaging for RPM >distros, but am glad to answer questions if >their maintainers have them. > >Scott K
The idea of developers being better maintainers is a bit of economic theory. My goal is to make the Linux distribution more scalable. If developers concentrate on their packages and distributions concentrate on the core operating system, this make for a much more efficient system there is much less duplicated work. The cost of adding more software to a distribution under this system would rapidly approach zero, as the distribution would just run a minimal check and do minimal testing. Ryan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
