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On Sunday 09 July 2006 01:10, Duncan wrote: |
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> An interesting observation was that of all the FLOSS projects, perhaps |
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> only Debian had successfully crossed the line from "medium" to "large". |
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> It does seem common around here to criticise them for constant politics |
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> and being almost stuck, sometimes, but that's one thing they've done that |
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> few others have managed. |
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Yes but at the same time they have maintainers that often does not know what |
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their work is, and screw things up very bad (unstable and experimental are |
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what they call them, but really a bit of user-caring wouldn't be bad from |
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their part). |
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Examples at hand? Amarok 1.4.0 was added with ruby as "suggested dependency" |
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that resulted in lots of users in #amarok to ask why lyrics didn't work. |
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Amarok 1.4.1 seems to have been added with the same error, and without the |
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properly patched xine-lib to play flac files (that I tried to advertise as |
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much as I could). |
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So I'm not sure if what they do, their policies and the quizzes and the other |
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stuff they require to "join debian" work. Most likely they work to discourage |
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people more interested in actual work than bureaucracy. |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ |
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Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE |
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