Anthony Towns <[email protected]> writes: > So here's the question, and really the only part of this mail that > warrants a response: > > Over the next twelve months, what single development/activity/project > is going to improve Debian's value the most? By how much? How will > you be involved?
Maybe you meant to ask "what are you going to work on over the next twelve months that will improve Debian's value?" Because the right answer to "what one thing is going to improve $FOO the most in the next twelve months," for pretty much any value of $FOO, is "ask us in twelve months and we'll tell you." Personally, here's some things that I plan on working on over the next twelve months that I think will improve Debian's value: * Implement (or merge implementations from others) of multiple repositories, archive areas, and architectures in Lintian. Redo the Lintian reporting scripts so that they install as regular programs with documentation to make it easier for other people to set up Lintian checks of private repositories. * Whittle the Debian Policy bug backlog down considerably and document in Policy some of the things that are currently underdocumented from a standardization perspective, to provide a more concrete standard and increase their visibility. For example, I think better Policy documentation of diversions, alternatives, and symbols files would be straightforward and useful. * Try to do real work as part of the Debian Technical Committee, hopefully resulting in resolving issues and reducing the decision backlog. * Add support for the new PAM automatic configuration to the two PAM packages that I maintain. * Package more tools and utilities for maintaining Kerberos realms and OpenAFS cells. None of these are exponential and I don't care about percentages with any of them. I'm okay with that. I don't think those are useful measures, and I don't think exponential growth is a useful or interesting goal. One thousand people all improving the parts of Debian that they care about produces incredibly impressive results. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
