Ubuntu 10.10 released

Posted Oct 11, 2010 8:30 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Ubuntu 10.10 released by tdwebste
Parent article: Ubuntu 10.10 released

And both, of course, originated in Debian. :)

Synaptic developers

Posted Oct 11, 2010 9:21 UTC (Mon) by sladen (guest, #27402) [Link] (1 responses)

$ wget -O- http://packages.debian.org/.../synaptic_0.70~pre1/changelog.txt | grep '^ --' | cut -d\  -f3-5 | sort | uniq -c
      1 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
      1 Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org>
      1 Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
    112 Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
    131 Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>

It would appear from the above that ninety-nine percent of uploads listed in that changelog (244/246) are by people who presently appear to have an @ubuntu.com email address.

Synaptic developers

Posted Oct 11, 2010 14:16 UTC (Mon) by joey (guest, #328) [Link]

Synaptic was developed by a Debian developer, in cooperation with the author of windowmaker, 4 entire years before Ubuntu did anything. It is heavily based on apt, a technology that was developed by a Debian developer long before that.

The debian changelog you downloaded records uploads made to Debian (or Ubuntu). It is not often a good measure of the work involved in developing a program.