Managing Divergence

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Fr, 2005-12-30 at 19:17 +0000, Martin Meredith wrote:
> I think that with the whole packages not in debian thing we need a DD on
> our MOTU team and on the utnubu team - and then things would get a lot
> easier.

I don't think that it is really necessary to be a DD to work in the
utnubu team. The thing is this: Debian requires a way higher quality
level on packages submitted, and Debian requires commitment to the
packages (i.e. you have to care for the package and solve bugs, take
care to get them into testing and so on). This is from the ubuntu POV
"unnecessary" overhead if you just want to get your package into the
next ubuntu release.

So just uploading random packages to debian wouldn't solve the problem.
You need to prove first that collaborative maintenance would work inside
debian. There has been a proposal by buxy even on this list about that,
and I think it does work, but the proof is yet to be done. Nobody argues
that it does work for ubuntu, though.

Nevertheless, I see that REVU is constantly full, and the rate of
submissions is way higher than the rate of package we can process. So I
think we should encourage more people to try to get their packages into
debian, so that we get them via auto sync. This requires some commitment
from the submitters though.


-- 
Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>
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