On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:07:57PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: > > Brian, I understand your complaints. It bugs me, too, to find > software not maintained well. We are volunteers, though, and as you > realize, it takes a lot of time to do this, and so it happens, on > occasion that someone just can't keep up. I don't think it's really > fair of people to tell you "hey, see if you can do it better", as you > may not have the free time to work on something, let alone jump > through the beaurocratic hoops that Debian places in the way of people > who want to help. If you don't have the time, you'll probably end up > not maintaining it well either;-)
This, however, doesn't make it OK, that the work isn't done properly - I for one know, that I do not have the time to be an active maintainer of any "major" Debian-package - So I don't. I have, however, considered one of the smaller packages, where I can overcome the burden of helping out. Work done poorly is - IMHO - worse than work not done - If a package in the Debian archives isn't maintained, it should be left open for someone else to grab - as in "work not done". Otherwise Debian will look like a bunch of developers, who have everything under control - but who are just plain poor at coding. And I don't think that's the way we want Debian to look? First post on debian-devel from me, hope there were no major errors... -- Rune B. Broberg aka. Mihtjel
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