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? # Han -- http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software