severity 586421 wishlist tags 586421 pending thanks
Sorry I sound negative ... I will send another one too ... On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 08:51:20AM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > > In Section 4.1 it is written > > ,---- > > | As you may have noticed, Debian is divided in sections: main (the free > > | software), non-free (the not really free software) and contrib (free > > | software that depends on non-free software). > > `---- > > > > This wording is not ideal, since it implies that non-free and contrib > > are part of Debian, Yes I know some (or some majority) of people thinks so. We voted for it but not all agreed. I personally think this is fairly OK. But as I read again, FAIR statement to all can be ... (adding "archive") | As you may have noticed, Debian archive is divided into sections: main (the free | software), non-free (the not really free software) and contrib (free | software that depends on non-free software). I am not so interested in discussing this politics. This document is not the place to push that kind of agenda either. If you have time, send us a patch on FTBFS bugs or some thing useful for Debian. We do not have enough people maintaining core packages while we have too many people asking sponsor for non-critical packages or asking fix to the text on nit-picking political stances. Sorry, I sound very harsh but please understand serious situation of Debian. We have not enough people to do important things but too many people asking work to address their issues. We as a volunteer organization, this is bad situation. Debian being upstream of Ubuntu, their popularity is giving us lots of pressure. But we are still waisting time on these issues. I think if you are serious about improving Debian, you have better thing to do. (At least propose patch to the source.) I understand detailed attitude pays off sometime. The half-ass nit picking is the last thing I want to deal with before people put real work to improve this situation. You can find many technical problems on maint-guild. If you had 10 of them before this, I would have listning and nicer. You so not seem to be DD, either. Becoming DD is part of time consuming work we do. I will mark this as pending since I will change svn as I indicated above. Sigh .... I am not good at dealing with people who want too much for nothing. Sorry but this is how I feel. So please think twice before asking others to put their time. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
