Moins, On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:15:45 -0600 Brian J Mingus <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have run my own (K)Ubuntu repository for four years so your > stereotype must not be completely true. Oh well, this is really...the usual way of doing things. I#m working with software stacks, which aren't inside Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat or OpenSuSE. I'm maintaining repositories with those software for months and years. That's a normal thing. This comes with someones job. Not all software will be pushed into Ubuntu or Debian or whatever distro you use. Maintaining repositories outside the distro landscape is really not the problem. The problem are software packages, where someone wants it in Ubuntu or Debian or whatever distro someone uses. This software package needs to be well maintained and updated/upgraded over time. And this is exactly the problem. A software packager who maintains this package can apply as well for Ubuntu Developer or Debian Developer or Fedora Maintainer or OpenSuSE developer if he or she is ready for that. This implies normally that the newly approved developer will take care about the self made package and about other software packages we have in universe and multiverse. But someone who just wants his or her special software pushed to ubuntu is normally not the type of person who supports it after its pushed to ubuntu. And those packages are rotting in our archives, and after some time, when it doesn't build anymore, we need to find a solution or we remove it from the archive. This is more workload for Ubuntu Developers. If you take care about your packages, you could as well apply as Ubuntu developer, if you want to see your software inside Ubuntu. But from what I see since the last years we have REVU in place, that many packages are not maintained well enough, and many Ubuntu Developers are busy with the packages we merge/sync from Debian during release cycles, so there is no time or no desire to deal with ubuntu only uploaded packages (minus the packages who are ubuntu only but are needed for the Ubuntu OS in general). And really, this is no stereotype, but reality. And it does not only apply for Ubuntu, but for Debian, Fedora or openSuSE or whatever distro is out there. Regards, \sh -- | Stephan '\sh' Hermann | OSS Dev / SysAdmin | | JID: [email protected] | http://www.sourcecode.de/ | | GPG ID: 0xC098EFA8 | http://leonov.tv/ | | FP: 3D8B 5138 0852 DA7A B83F DCCB C189 E733 C098 EFA8 | -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
