A Debian developer's thoughts on the state of Debian (Linux-Watch)

A Debian developer's thoughts on the state of Debian (Linux-Watch)

Posted Apr 17, 2007 6:48 UTC (Tue) by Zack (guest, #37335)
In reply to: A Debian developer's thoughts on the state of Debian (Linux-Watch) by tuxchick
Parent article: A Debian developer's thoughts on the state of Debian (Linux-Watch)

It used to be one of the great strenghts of Debian that productive but strong-headed developers, who would elsewhere be labeled "trolls and troublemakers", could join and contribute as long as they adhered to policy.

"Filter out the idiots", has been a perfectly good solution so far. With most communication done over the internet a kill-file and /ignore will limit communication to just about everyone you choose to listen to.

It hasn't been for all that long that debian drifted towards the opinion that it must appear to the outside as one big happy family (and enforce that by adopting procedures to remove "unwanted elements"), instead of a collection of volunteers that happen to work together, each one for their own private motives, on building a technical excellent distribution.

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