Hi Andreas, On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:48:13PM -0430, Muammar El Khatib wrote: >> >> That's a very good point. I remember that the other day I felt very confused >> about which team to join. It wasn't clear for me what the reason was in >> having >> two groups. I am very sure that the merge will avoid, as it has pointed out, >> this kind of confusions. > > ... and we do not know how many people gave up before actually joining a > team because they was too confused. >
That's for sure. It is very very confusing. >> This is very important, too. Every time that I have read mails regarding this >> merge I think that there should be developers who in some way are happy with >> the >> team they are involved with and that maybe it won't be that easy to achieve >> this. But I believe that this change would bring its benefits. > > IMHO it is not the team (meaning a group of persons) for two reasons: > 1. As Sylvestre has shown there is an overlap of people > 2. I assume the people in both teams are nice and friendly persons > having no problems to cooperate. > > I think it is rather the workflow you have to change which is sometimes > much harder. You have to remember to change the Vcs fields in the > control files of your packages, upload to a different Vcs, subscribe > another mailing list etc. That's not a team issue, that's something > which drains a bit of your own time. It would be good if those people > who are agreeing to the merge just would take this time for instance when > doing the next upload of a package. I agree, you are right with those statements you wrote above. Maybe I didn' t expressed myself properly. Thanks for clarifying this. Regards, -- Muammar El Khatib. Linux user: 403107. GPG Key = 127029F1 http://muammar.me | http://proyectociencia.org ,''`. : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
