On Monday, October 10, 2011 06:08:16 PM Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le lundi 10 octobre 2011 à 16:41 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit : > > It's pretty much how I got involved in Debian, way back when. > > Great, it's also how I started in Debian back then ;-) > > Debian and Ubuntu are great communities and will keep attracting people > who have interest in doing that sort of work but... > > - there are lot of people out there who writer softwares and have no > interest to learn enough about Ubuntu to become a MOTU, they just want > to reach users, they should be welcome to join as well and in a way > which is not to difficult for them > - you were recently complaining as well about the number of packages > that see one upload and stop being maintained that we have to fix then, > do we want those in the main archive because they attract people or > would they be better suited in extras? > - locking upstream softwares to our release cycle just don't fit, it's a > best un-natural and create extra work, it often means that users get > outdated softwares or versions that upstreams want to replace > > One other way would be perhaps to stop freezing universe at release and > to let softwares elvolve in a least strict way...
What rationale would there be for doing that for just Universe? There are lots of leaf applications in Main and lots of libraries in Universe. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
