On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Julien BLACHE wrote:
For $DEITY's sake. Will you please understand that the Ubuntu folks totally failed to inform their fellows about what was going on ? And at the time, there was no Canonical website, no Ubuntu website. Only a handful of patches up on no-name-yet.
I think we deserved a better explanation.
Hmmm, I do not remember that Corel did some better information policy when they made a Debian derived distribution. There are other examples as well. I do not want to compare Ubuntu with those commercial distributors, but if we build a FREE operating system nobody has to inform us about anything as long it is conform to our license.
And no, I do not exactly know what Ububtu people are doing but I see no harm in it if they employ a certain amount of DDs as other companies do as well. Please could we concentrate back on our own problems instead of discussing the problems of other distributions.
Our own problem is whether certain groups inside Debian have problems in communication with other interested people which do not (yet) belong directly to this group. I would answer this question with: Yes, by a certain amount.
We have to enhance communication as a certain kind of documentation:
1. Reasonable protocols of discussion inside these groups are be useful for their own work. These protocols can be opened (we don't hide problems). 2. Lower barriere for potential helpers to step in (because they are informed about what's going on.) 3. This would (hopefully) reduce FUD.
So why not setting up at a certain web space containing information about meeting of groups like the Vancouver meeting:
1. Date + Time 2. Location 3. Agenda 4. Invited people ---> This should be published before the meeting 5. Log about the points which were discussed after the meeting in form of a technical documentation
Kind regards
Andreas.
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