Manoj Srivastava resigns as Debian secretary [LWN.net]

Manoj Srivastava resigns as Debian secretary

Posted Dec 19, 2008 3:35 UTC (Fri) by yarikoptic (guest, #36795)
In reply to: Manoj Srivastava resigns as Debian secretary by drag
Parent article: Manoj Srivastava resigns as Debian secretary

> BECAUSE THEY DON'T RELEASE ANY SOFTWARE.

Wow...

Probably Debian is a 3 wheel car? never heard of Debian releasing hardware either...
or may be Linus T. doesn't release software either -- he mostly manages the patches as well ;)

If you wanted to look smart, you could have said "they don't develop any software", but then again you would hit the air (giving out hints: installer, tens or hundreds tools etc)

Back to the topic though -- sad that Manoj leaves, but that is again a beauty of free and open-source development, anyone is welcome to take only as much load as he likes. Manoj has done great job imho as a secretary, so kudos and enjoy time not being a secretary ;-)

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Manoj Srivastava resigns as Debian secretary

Posted Dec 19, 2008 6:22 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

> If you wanted to look smart, you could have said "they don't develop any software", but then again you would hit the air (giving out hints: installer, tens or hundreds tools etc)

They don't release any software as in they don't release any software packages or operating systems. The 'latest and greatest' from Debian is in perpetual beta. Usable for some types of users and great for Debian developers, but unfortunately not very useful for most people.

If Debian was capable of releasing software on a timely basis then there wouldn't be any Ubuntu. Everybody involved would be better off. But they can't seem to get over themselves and pull it together.

Manoj Srivastava resigns as Debian secretary

Posted Dec 25, 2008 16:35 UTC (Thu) by ms (subscriber, #41272) [Link]

Meh, I've been running Debian unstable as my main distribution for over 5 years. It's great. I absolutely hate the idea of moving to a distribution which doesn't progressively roll out new packages as they become available. For all I care, they should abandon their stable releases.