Le Samedi 8 F�vrier 2003 01:13, Gustavo Franco a �crit : > > But, I don't think we need to be a carbon copie of Debian. > > Debian is not the only volunteers OS project, everybody seems to forget > > FreeBSD, and other, or even some smalls os, such as AtheOs, OpenBeOS, and > > others, who don't work in the same way as Debian. > > In this case, you can try collect information about organization of the > projects cited above, and nothing only about Debian.
Well, I did, but they are far from being well documented. All BSD have a core team, who make technical decision. This provides conservatism, and they are sure that the goals of the projects are respected. ( this and some dinosaurs that should have disappeared, such as csh.... :-) ) I don't know exactly how you can become one of the "technical chief", probably based on merit. OpenBSD team release CDs each 6 month, as said before. They maintain the four last release. I have seen a card with the location of the developpers, but, they are less than 20 ! They don't talk on how they add software to the ports ( contributed software, such as KDE ), or who maintain it. NetBSD release frequently, something as each 6 months, more or less, and the work is divided in 2 or more branchs ( 1.6,1.5,Current ), I think. FreeBSD works as NetBSD, but, they release less, and they maintain 2 or 3 branche ( 3.X,4.X,5.X ), + the cvs one, called current. I don't remember all details, so they may be wrong. You can check their website. As far as i know, OpenBEos is still in pre-alpha stage. And, Atheos was based on the work of only one person, who stopped it, and so, some project begin to fork and then to work together. I don't have take a look to this since 6 months, so this may be greatly inaccurate. And, to finish, did you know that Gentoo has adopted the Debian Social Contract ? > > Some parts of Debian are great, some parts can be changed, and some parts > > don't really correspond to the Mandrake's touch. Just my view on this. > > Many parts can be changed and we're working on it.Why can't Mandrake > approach change with us too? Well, of course, why not. What are your proposition ? > > But what I want is to help Mandrake. Because, if I wanted to use Debian > > and to help Debian, I should have done it earlier. > > In one months or two you're doing: "apt-get update; apt-get -uy > upgrade".I can see :P Well, I can already, thanks to Connectiva who ported apt-get for rpm. Except i do not have enough bandwidth... And, if it didn't exist, we still have the wonderful urpmi. I think this is the place to greatly thank Fran�ois Pons for this wonderful piece of software :-) -- Micha�l Scherer
