Let us face reality

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Jan 28 14:47:57 UTC 2005


On 28 janv. 05, at 3:06, Lex Spoon wrote:

> This talk of paying worries me.  I see many open source projects that
> do very well with very little funding.  I see many people participating
> in Squeak -- after all, just look how many ENH's we have.  :)  Surely
> there is a way to channel all this energy, especially given the large
> number of successful OS projects in the universe?


But who is collecting and taking care that the enh are getting in the 
image?
Who?

> I fear that if we use money to prop up our current situation, we will
> just keep on doing things in a sub-optimal way.  Surely we can figure
> out what the other guys do, that we do not?  I do not oppose spending 
> money
> in general on Squeak; I simply worry about trying to use it to speed up
> business as usual.
>
> Here here!!  You are all tired of hearing it, but Debian does
> *fabulously* on very little money.  8000+ packages and 900+ developers.
> A major part of Debian, I think, is that everything is divided into
> packages and each package has a maintainer.  Un-maintained packages are
> gradually marginalized and then removed from the distribution.  When
> there is a bug report, it's easy to see who is responsible, and it's
> easy for the responsible person to become aware of it.
>
> Are there any bugs posted against Chuck right now on Mantis?  I have no
> idea.  And what about Nebraska, which is still in the image?  Eek.  In
> Debian, I have exactly two bug reports open.

yes but packages does not work really now. So this is the future
clearly but now. I'm talking about looking at the fixes and enh and
creating new images.
>
>
Stef




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