2009/4/27 Alan Pope <a...@popey.com>: > > 2009/4/27 Tim Dobson <li...@tdobson.net>: > >> While I was at FOSDEM this year, in the build up to the Debian Lenny > >> release, I hung out with a load of Debian Devs. > >> Despite declaring Lenny stable being more of a formality for the > >> developers than anything else, the atmosphere was electric.. > >> > > > > You were at a Free and Open Source Developers Meeting, where I am not > > surprised there was some excitement around the Lenny release. > > > > I didn't see that translate into the "real world" in the way it did > > with Ubuntu, and I haven't seen many reports of Fedora release parties > > either. > > > > There's a big difference between insular excitement ad a developer > > conference and "real world" excitement involving users of the > > software. > > Agreed. I don't doubt that there was some excitement amongst > developers and that the developers are lovely, friendly people. > However, it doesn't get translated out to the rest of the world as > much as it should. I've never felt the Debian community to be > particularly welcoming, as an outsider, and what I hear from news > sites/blogs tends to involve a lot of arguments/negativity rather than > their positive achievements. > > > >> In two->three years time, when I expect Squeeze will be released, I for > >> one will be celebrating the release, and I hope many Ubuntu users will > >> join me. :) > >> > > I'd certainly go along to a Debian release party and I look forward to > you organising it ;) > > <jk> Well you're all invited to my Windows 7 release party anyway.... </jk>
Chris
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