[Cdd-commits] r393 - cdd/trunk/doc/en

[CDD Subversion Commit]

Author: tille
Date: Wed Jul 13 21:31:53 2005
New Revision: 393

Modified:
   cdd/trunk/doc/en/03_general_ideas.sgml
Log:
Added some philosophical ideas from DebConf talk.


Modified: cdd/trunk/doc/en/03_general_ideas.sgml
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--- cdd/trunk/doc/en/03_general_ideas.sgml	(original)
+++ cdd/trunk/doc/en/03_general_ideas.sgml	Wed Jul 13 21:31:53 2005
@@ -278,6 +278,49 @@
 <p>
 <strong>Debian is the missing link between upstream developers and users.</strong>
 </p>
+</sect>
+
+  <sect id="philosophy">
+   <heading>Custom Debian Distributions from philosophical point of view</heading>
+<p>
+Debian currently grows in several directions:
+
+<list>
+    <item>Number of involved people</item>
+    <item>Number of packages</item>
+    <item>Number of architectures</item>
+    <item>Number of bugs</item>
+    <item>Number of users</item>
+    <item>Number of derivatives</item>
+    <item>Time span between releases</item>
+</list>
+
+So several features are changing at differ rates their quantity.
+According to Hegel a change of quantity leads into a change in
+quality.  That means that Debian will change at a certain point in
+time (or over a certain time span) its quality.
+</p>
+<p>
+"To determine at the right moment the critical point where
+ quantity changes into quality is one of the most important and
+ difficult tasks in all the spheres of knowledge." (Trotzki) This
+ might mean that we just passed the point in time when Debian changed
+ its quality.  At one point we even observed a change once the package
+ pool system was implemented to cope with the increased number of
+ packages while trying to reduce the time span between releases. Even
+ if the plan to increase the frequencies of releases failed Debian
+ became a new quality.  People started using the <file>testing</file>
+ distribution even in production which was not really intended and in
+ a consequence even security in <file>testing</file> was implemented
+ for Sarge.
+</p>
+<p>
+According to Darwin evolution happens through quantitative
+transformations passing into qualitative.  So Debian has to evolve and
+to cope with the inner changes and outer requirements to survive in
+the Linux distribution environment.
+</p>
+</sect>
 </chapt>
 
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