Before I reply to your message, Michael, let me briefly let people
know why I'm involved :-) I've been a Debian developer since 1995 or
so, and someone recently posted to our developer's list information
about this thread, and I would like to try to offer a bit of insight
on what Debian has done
Austin Acton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well preliminary questions are:
1. Is there any hope of MandrakeSoft adopting a plan like this?
2. If so, will they administer it? In other words, do THEY want to
reorganize into a more community-based distro, or do they want US to
form our own
Gustavo Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PS: Some friends have always argued that the debian way is the only
sustainable way to go. If mdk is going to do it just like debian, why
not fold and move the idea's and effort into making debian a better
distro instead of duplicating the effort?
Austin Acton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. They have documents clearly outlining their goals and standards.
http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
http://www.debian.org/social_contract
You will also be interested in the Constitution, which discusses
Debian's internal structure:
Warly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think Mandrake goal has always be very different from debian one.
Mandrake is a distribution focused on user, aimed to ease linux access
to everybody, and which is very reactive and on the cutting edge.
Debian is more developper oriented and with a
Austin Acton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The point is not to become debian. The point is to learn from their
organizational success.
And failures, too. Debian has some of each.
How many developers do you see the Mandrake community having?
Austin Acton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The community should not be interpreted as a port or a fork or a new
project. IMHO, it should be just that, a community: with both corporate
and volunteer portions working as one.
OK, I may have misinterpreted the reason it's starting. I thought the
Austin Acton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the lines of the Debian Desktop project. Or, joining the existing
Desktop and installer projects.
Are you serious?
No, just opening Pandora's Box a little :-)
Really, I'm just putting forth options, which may be really bad or may
be really good. As I
Michael Scherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. A developer is still maintaining a package, but wants to stop
2. A developer has stopped maintaining the package and wants to let
others know about it.
Well, orphaned package need to be adopted before any work is done on it,
that's right ?
Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And failures, too. Debian has some of each.
How many developers do you see the Mandrake community having?
If I had to guess, I'd say somewhere between 40 and 100, somewhere
around 20-50% of whom are MandrakeSoft employees. Don't quote me on
that,
Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri Feb 07 13:10 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
My position is that all operating systems suck. (Hard to argue with
that.) It's our job to make them suck a little less.
I presume you have heard of Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie?
Nope, care to explain
Gustavo Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mandrake as a new project inside Debian.But it was refused here, many feels
involved.But if you change the original idea, try debian-project ML.The
Debian-Mandrake can receive financial support of SPI as described by
Goerzen, more and more developers,
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In one months or two you're doing: apt-get update; apt-get -uy
upgrade.I can see :P
We have 'urpmi.update -a; urpmi --auto-select --auto' (I have this in
cron), and it gives me more than Debain does, unless Debian has XFS+ACL
This is an honest
Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stefan van der Eijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
and move the idea's and effort into making debian a better distro instead of
duplicating the effort?
one main difference with debian, is that mandrake (tries to) takes
into account the users's needs (and not only
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