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People behind Debian: Stefano Zacchiroli
Raphaël Hertzog interviews
Debian project leader Stefano Zacchiroli. "As a project, we seem
to be more appealing to packagers than to software developers. That is a
pity given the amount of exciting coding tasks that are everywhere in
Debian. Part of the reason we are not appealing to developers is that we
are not particularly good at collecting coding tasks in a place where
interested developers could easily pick them up. It also takes quite a bit
of inside knowledge to spot infrastructure bugs and understand how to fix
them."
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People behind Debian: Stefano Zacchiroli Posted Nov 28, 2011 21:14 UTC (Mon) by roskegg (subscriber, #105) [Link]
The real problem is the internal politics. Good coders don't like being dictated to by sysadmins. It is a status thing. If we aren't getting paid, we can be having more fun off coding in our own sandbox. Over time, the coders have been discouraged and left or run off.
People behind Debian: Stefano Zacchiroli Posted Nov 29, 2011 10:28 UTC (Tue) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322) [Link]
I've worked on my share of Debian infrastructure in my time, and have never been dictated to by sysadmins in the process. Are you making a specific point about Debian development here, or just attaching a general rant? There are plenty of coders in Debian; all Zack is saying is that not many of them are working on our own infrastructure, as opposed to code that runs on Debian systems out there in the wild.
People behind Debian: Stefano Zacchiroli Posted Nov 29, 2011 10:30 UTC (Tue) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322) [Link]
... or on upstream code that's distributed as part of Debian. (Sorry, hit post a bit too early.)
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