On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:53:27AM +0000, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:14:39AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.10.11.1002 +0200]: > > > This is quite frustrating, since most of the applicants are surely > > > doing already the normal work every Developer has to do, but are > > > not able to upload or participate on current votes.
> > I agree that this might well be frustrating. However, I also oppose > > to any measure to increase the new queue throughput until we figured > > out how to also get *rid* of DDs. Our project is too large; we can't > > just keep growing. > I absolutly disagree. Every Debian contributor doing work we depend on > for the continued activity of Debian should be a DD. > We have nearly the same number of registered developers than at woody > time however we have expanded operation by about 250%. We need more > developers to better spread the load. Rather than kicking out those developers who have added to the bloat of the archive without taking responsibility for the long-term consequences of the packages they've added? :) You appear to believe that adding people to the project will improve the ratio of developers to packages. I do not; I expect it will cause the number of packages to increase in proportion to the increase in developers, because people choose to become developers to scratch *their own* itches and those will frequently be different than the itches of those who came before them and left behind orphaned packages. I do think a more limber NM process would benefit us in general, but I don't see any reason to believe that more DDs == better packages. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
