Ana Guerrero Lopez écrivait: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:04:36AM +0200, Christophe Siraut wrote: > > > > Such an explicit option would actually make us pay more attention to the > > derivatives IMO. Let people read what they want to, without asking :) > > This is the argumentation I never understand: why adding an option about > derivatives will make people care more about then [1]? which leads > to the question: why we should push people in Debian to care about > derivatives?
In the context of the dashboard the main question is: what information is useful for improving the quality of our packages? Does it include bug reports or patches against packages we maintain but were redistributed rebranded? I think caring about derivative packages sometimes really helps to improve ours. Now every maintainers knows what information is relevant for her/his tasks. If displaying some information is harmful in your opinion I agree we must stop showing it or at least provide a way to hide it. On why not adding an option, my point is it would prevent maintainers to lazily ignore the derivatives, they would instead be forced to make a political statement to themselves, "Do I care about derivatives?" many of us would need more than a yes/no answer. Said differently not caring is different from wanting it to be removed. It is perfectly fine to me if someone implements the hiding bits. Note the dashboard exports are derivative-free. Christophe -- Bridgekeeper: What is your favourite colour? Galahad: Blue. No, yel... [he is also thrown over the edge] Galahad: auuuuuuuugh. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
