On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:09, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 04:16, Matej Cepl wrote: > > Paul Belanger wrote: > > > After all, the point of any distribution is to sell it to a user. > > > > It is not. For example, Debian Developers usually don't care how many > > users is Debian sold to. And that is a good thing. > > If you think of the monetary aspect: okay. But if you think of "selling > something to someone" in the meaning of promotion then I'll definitely > second that debian.org's web site is not very appealing. It does its job > and is functional - but it is not very nifty. And by the way I *do* care > how many users use my packages or Debian altogether. It's nicer to > maintain something that 1000 people use than something that is just > rotting in the archives.
Seems like this website issue has already been addressed: (note: url is intentionally wrapped) http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/theora-small/ 2006-05-20/hacklab/www_debian_org_redesign-Agnieszka_Czajkowska.ogg -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
