On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:47:49AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > > As Debian does not develop arbitrary non-debian related software (from a > > > hive-mind perspective, individual DDs might very well do, but we can't > > > tell them what to do anyway), this change would alter the technical > > > direction of the project a fair bit, IMHO.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:51:05PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > In principle, we [as a project] do not develop software at all. > > Projects like dpkg, alien, apt, and so on are all carried out by > > individual developers, on the initiative of individual developers. > > But maybe that contradicts that principle. On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 04:43:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Well, projects like Gnome and KDE get packaged on the initiative > of individual developers too. katie and debbugs get written on the > initiative of individual developers too. I don't think it's reasonable > to say "Debian" isn't about doing either of those things, though. Hmm... ok, but while every debian "developer" manages packages, only a few develop software we use. > > Probably I should have used wording which does not seem to require that > > debian actually develop anything. > > It's not really reasonable to "require" anything; that's the principle > implied by us all being volunteers. Yeah, that too. > IMHO, the social contract's about what we won't do, and what we aspire > to doing. We're aiming to create a free operating system. We won't hide > problems. We won't discriminate against people, even people who want to > use our resources to help them run non-free software. Etc. Ok. Thanks, -- Raul
