On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:38, Michael Scherer wrote:
> We also need to support equaly contribs and main, don't you think ?
Well, the problem is Mandrake says publicly "we fully support the
packages in main, but not in contribs" so they do need to have tight
control over main.
Maybe a fair solution would be
-make main much smaller, just core apps: kernel, daemons, drivers, main
GUI
-Mandrake keeps full control of that
-make contribs much larger: include office apps, the smaller desktop
environments
-give developers much more control of contribs
Then of course they would have to decide whether to ship a one CD distro
and tell users to get all contribs online, OR ship some contribs stuff
and say: CD 2+3 are unsupported.
Tough call.
> You are right, so, changes should be check by others, by a senior developper.
> So, we need to have a team for this, so, secund team is "senior developper
> charged of the initiation of young jedi".
I don't think there's anything wrong with having 'senior' developers.
This isn't supposed to be communism. But the point is that everyone
involved gets treated like a developer, not a peasant.
Austin
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Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
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