OT - Re: [Utnubu-discuss] porting pyalsaaudio from Utnubu

[Floris Bruynooghe]

[ Sorry for being completely OT here - also I'm sure it has been
discussed before already ]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 10:12:51AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> My comments earlier were a bit harsh to Ubuntu developers. I apologise.
> Of course Ubuntu developers would work on Ubuntu during paid work hours
> and I shouldn't criticise them for not devoting more spare time to
> Debian.

Sure, don't blame volunteers for not doing their work.  I've got some
work too that I haven't done for ages.  But I can't help to notice
some points:

a. The package was in Ubuntu universe you said, so it shouldn't have
   been her/his job to work on it afaik.

b. Is this an indication that the Ubuntu development is not working
   properly?  What I mean is that Ubuntu pulls unstable from Debian
   normally, so I would expect the way to get something in Ubuntu is
   to get it in Debian.  Only with the exception of some very specific
   things that Ubuntu want's to move on with.  Thus it would be
   beneficial for Ubuntu developers to work on Debian.  However if the
   Ubuntu model discourages the maintaining of the packages in Debian
   I think there must be something wrong, or maybe Ubuntu isn't as
   beneficial to Debian as was hoped it would be.

Just my thoughts, please correct me if I'm wrong (and I hope so since
I like both Ubuntu and Debian and would love to see the two work nice
together and benefit from each other.

Floris

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