And people call Lannart arrogant???
And people call Lannart arrogant???
Posted Nov 22, 2011 6:06 UTC (Tue) by jrn (subscriber, #64214)In reply to: And people call Lannart arrogant??? by jmorris42
Parent article: That newfangled Journal thing
You can see an approximate preview of the next Debian release by looking at what "unstable" does today (just like you can see a preview of the next Fedora release by running rawhide). If you don't like what you see, you can even participate to improve it by sending clear bug reports and patches.
Suppose you disagree at a fundamental level with an operating system developer --- for example, let's say you love KDE 3 and are upset that the KDE maintainers moved on to KDE 4. Even then, as long as you are doing the work, you can add packages that work the way you want in parallel (for example, you could package Trinity). If your use case requires changing someone else's package in a way that the maintainer does not want, then the technical committee[1] may listen to your arguments, weigh them (which involves, implicitly, weighing the impact on users and the amount of work you have done to bring your proposal about), and come up with a way to make it happen without sacrificing too much.
I imagine most distros work somewhat like this.