On Tuesday 24 of November 2009, houghi wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:04:48PM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Actually, especially in the leafnode case, the energy spent complaining here would be enough to maintain the package for at least 3 years ;)
You have apparently no idea how bad I am at doing things like that. ;-)
And it is NOT about leafnode that I complain. It is about the whole process. You could even think about not only dropped packages, but packages that were never included.
The issue is that packages are dropped apparently because there are not enough developers or maintainers. Now how much I would love to be one, I must also understand my limitations.
It's sometimes amazing how much people can learn if they really would love to. Trust me, there are much more difficult things that are still doable than maintaining a reasonable package. Maybe the biggest limitation is people thinking there are limitations.
So we should be going to the bottom and look as to why there are not enough and what we can do to change that. Do other distributions have the same issues and how do they solve it?
Almost each and every package is available under Debian. How do they do that and what can we learn from that, so we can implement that or even do it better.
If the answer is more package maintainers, the perhaps we must see how we can do that. What are the problems people face who are trying to become one. Perhaps the learning cruve is to big. Perhaps people are afraid of the resposability for one package. Perhaps there are other things.
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