Re: paying people for Debian work (Re: Why do we take so long to realise good ideas (Was: Difficult Packaging Practices))

2019-06-06 Thread Joël Krähemann
Hi, Why to support additional fragmentation? My opinion is debian was left behind regarding infrastructure. I do packaging for various distributions. Honestly, I am running debian. But you could provide continues integration for different architectures, not only i386 and amd64. Extend access to

Re: paying people for Debian work (Re: Why do we take so long to realise good ideas (Was: Difficult Packaging Practices))

2019-06-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 03 Jun 2019, Paul Wise wrote: > There are a few things that are possibly concerning: Thanks for sharing those. Let me answer them. > Freexian is essentially the only available-to-hire provider of > services for Debian LTS, as the Freeside link doesn't lead anywhere > useful. This mea

Re: paying people for Debian work (Re: Why do we take so long to realise good ideas (Was: Difficult Packaging Practices))

2019-06-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 5:32 AM Holger Levsen wrote: > LTS is accepted by the Debian community. I'm not entirely sure this fully represents the range of feelings about the LTS efforts. There are a few things that are possibly concerning: Freexian is essentially the only available-to-hire provid

paying people for Debian work (Re: Why do we take so long to realise good ideas (Was: Difficult Packaging Practices))

2019-05-30 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:01:44AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > Use the $300,000 on our bank accounts? > > I heard that this didn't work out well the last time ("dunc tank"), > > though that was before the time I followed Debian development. > Yes, I was there (and mention it briefly in the