Michael Scherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> The problem is that if some people, ie Mandrake employees, have full control 
> of main, this would means that we are not fully equal.

That's not a problem, thats a fact of life ;)

Ever heard of Damocles sword? :) 

> Just take a look at the discussion for Maildir in /etc/skel, which involves 
> changes in main. If there is a distinction between developers, because some 
> of them have control on main, and the others not, this is no good.

On the contrairy. If I _think_ I have a good idea it doesn't mean it is a good
idea. So I make a suggestion. If it convinces the mdk people they will 
implement it and if they don't that's too bad.

Often it happens that what is good for me isn't good for a distro. Should
it be added? Nope. But I will certainly add to my own install.


> IMHO, the problem of contrib support is the lack of people.
> But, if the support team grow bigger, by including volunteers developpers, if 
> the bug are handled by the mainteners, and if each people have fewer 
> packages, this is solved, no ?
> 
> I think that everything should be equally supported by the community, and, if 
> someone want to pay for having Mandrake supporting a program for them, they 
> can.
> 
> We can provide normal support, Mandrake can and should provides commercial
> support. Then, they can pay developpers, they can provides bandwidth and CPU, 
> and so on.

Hmmm hard to descibe all possible situations isn't it?



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