http://charismacode.blogspot.com/2007/01/powers-and-repositories-ubuntu-and.html
That was an interesting article. Only it seems that Rosetta suffers from a lack of project management in certain categories of packages. Again the simple logic being, if QA does not improve, people will simply not use those packages and if the same becomes true for the distribution, it will simply die.
"Rosetta acts and exists as if it is independent of upstream." - again the same study.
i do agree that it is strange that they are sharing submitted changes with the upstream. That is a self defeating policy as then one is not in sync with the base package. They probably could just submit that to the package maintainers for review and then get back the response and act accordingly. Not doing so is simply a waste of that effort.
We are almost there to have complete Free Softwares and if we lose now, why did we do it all along? we could all have sit content with proprietary software.
Again, isn't it a bit too presumptuous on your part. i mean that literally sounds like a Bushism Either you are with us or against us - that just does not work.
"Over time, it will be open sourced. Right now we compete with Progeny and Red Hat and other companies, so we need to have a unique offering to do so effectively, and that's Launchpad. There are already libraries and tools in LP that we have open sourced on request, especially in Rosetta, the translation infrastructure. ..." Mark Shuttleworth
sounds like he doesn't want Launchpad to goto into the bazaar model as that would drift its focus - namely competing with Progeny and Red Hat.
"... to me, the only logical conclusion to that is that LaunchPad will be free when Canonical/Ubuntu are the only players in the market, or when Canonical's current business model fails and they switch to a different one. Which is fine: if you write some software from scratch, it's your choice what you do with it; but unless you're an underpants gnome or a slashdot commenter, the above doesn't qualify as a "plan" to free LaunchPad." - Anthony Towns, previous debian project leader.
Hmm...
I believe that is a very important quality for a member in the Free Software community. If all they do is take everything in and not give anything back then that is not good for the community.
agreed.
> Well, at the end of the day it got dumped for git and if all you say > is true for launchpad it won't last very long either. is it a prediction?
its the law of nature.
I'm working on debian to make it easier for new users, so are many.
cool.
> Sometimes it not so bad if you hold a child's hand while it is > learning to walk :-) I would love to do it myself rather than depending on someone else.
as i've said before there is life in the Universe other than techies. In fact not respecting that life qualifies as a kind of Nazism that only people of a certain conditioning can use a particular thing while others can't.
Do you know why it was chucked out? the bitkeeper guys said, enough you can't use it any more. Here the case is different. Both guys are the same.
The case is kind of similar, if your doomsday theory regarding Canonical is true then Ubuntu will be chucked out by many - law of nature. Regards, - vihan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
