On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 07:47, Michael Scherer wrote: > Le Samedi 8 Février 2003 01:13, Gustavo Franco a écrit : > > > > But, I don't think we need to be a carbon copie of Debian. > > > Debian is not the only volunteers OS project, everybody seems to forget > > > FreeBSD, and other, or even some smalls os, such as AtheOs, OpenBeOS, and > > > others, who don't work in the same way as Debian. > > > > In this case, you can try collect information about organization of the > > projects cited above, and nothing only about Debian. > > Well, I did, but they are far from being well documented. > > All BSD have a core team, who make technical decision. > This provides conservatism, and they are sure that the goals of the projects > are respected. ( this and some dinosaurs that should have disappeared, such > as csh.... :-) ) > I don't know exactly how you can become one of the "technical chief", probably > based on merit. > > OpenBSD team release CDs each 6 month, as said before. They maintain the four > last release. I have seen a card with the location of the developpers, but, > they are less than 20 ! They don't talk on how they add software to the ports > ( contributed software, such as KDE ), or who maintain it. Read the documentation, here: http://www.openbsd.org/porting.html
> NetBSD release frequently, something as each 6 months, more or less, and the > work is divided in 2 or more branchs ( 1.6,1.5,Current ), I think. > > FreeBSD works as NetBSD, but, they release less, and they maintain 2 or 3 > branche ( 3.X,4.X,5.X ), + the cvs one, called current. > > I don't remember all details, so they may be wrong. > You can check their website. > > As far as i know, OpenBEos is still in pre-alpha stage. > And, Atheos was based on the work of only one person, who stopped it, and so, > some project begin to fork and then to work together. I don't have take a > look to this since 6 months, so this may be greatly inaccurate. > > And, to finish, did you know that Gentoo has adopted the Debian Social > Contract ? > > > > Some parts of Debian are great, some parts can be changed, and some parts > > > don't really correspond to the Mandrake's touch. Just my view on this. > > > > Many parts can be changed and we're working on it.Why can't Mandrake > > approach change with us too? > > Well, of course, why not. > What are your proposition ? Mandrake as a new project inside Debian.But it was refused here, many feels involved.But if you change the original idea, try debian-project ML.The Debian-Mandrake can receive financial support of SPI as described by Goerzen, more and more developers, because Debian Developers automatically can help this new project...But it's only a proposition.Already refused, i known. > [...] > And, if it didn't exist, we still have the wonderful urpmi. > I think this is the place to greatly thank François Pons for this wonderful > piece of software :-) I was reading the source code.It's simple and functional in my view, i've some suggestions.Definitely, *it works*. ;) bye, -- Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
