* Jose Miguel Parrella <[email protected]> [2019-03-20 07:48]: > Do candidates think Debian "competes" for "share"/"mindshare" of users > and contributors in the "Linux distro" category?
Yes, absolutely. I don't want to bring a Brexit analogy, but everything is connected. A happy Debian user will recommend Debian to their friends. Some of those friends will start to use Debian. Some of them will become Debian contributors. And so on. If that user had recommended Arch Linux because the documentation is so good (just to give an example), we would have missed out from having several new users and contributors. We should ask ourselves why some Debian users are moving away. What can we improve in Debian? BTW, I also believe that the Linux community as a whole needs to ask this question because a lot of people (including developers) have moved from Linux to macOS. > And if so, what do they think users and contributors expect from a > "universal" distro in 2020? I don't know. But I feel that the Linux world is increasingly at odds with what "normal" users want (at least on the desktop). They want something polished that just works. We should probably find out... > Do candidates think that Debian has far more technical deliverables > than packages in a repo plus installers? And if so, do candidates > think the organizational structure [1] accurately reflects this? > Would DPL candidates propose changes to the organizational > structure? How would they use, for example, delegations to re-shape > the org structure? I'm not entirely sure I understand the question correctly. I was going to say that Debian is of course more than packages and the installer. Documentation, artwork... partnerships... the support network, etc. But you write "technical deliverables" and I'm not sure what you mean. As with several other questions, I find myself wanting to ask: "what do *you* think?" I think whoever becomes DPL should go back and read these -vote threads to gather ideas and questions. -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/
