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Re: What's going on in there ?



> 1) Bo was supposed to be frozen Feb 1st, tested during February, and 
> released March 1st. Bo isn't frozen yet, and we're heading towards 
> another rex fiasco.

I think Guy is having problems - maybe he or Brian should explain
them. I don't see how we could do the release before the end of
April at this point.

> 2) The BOD was supposed to write a Debian constitution, and we've 
> heard nothing from them (except people being nominated to various 
> positions, with (IMHO) excessively pretentious titles (the _titles_, 
> not the persons)).

The BOD passed a working draft, and are continuing to work on it.  I
designated the officers when it became clear we needed them.  I'm sorry
you don't like the titles, but they are trivial and you can live with
them. After I add an officer it only takes about a month before I hear
"now I understand why you wanted to quit". I think it's more important
to do something about _that_ than a lot of technical matters.

> 3) There's a trend to always add packages and packages while there 
> are several packages that aren't actively maintained. We still have 
> old a.out packages while everyone discusses and argues about the 
> virtues of a new source format. Let's start by having _all_ packages 
> actively maintained and compliant with the current standard.

OK. Phil Troin, you are appointed point man on the orphaned software
problem.  Please coordinate with Sven Rudolph, who keeps the list of
packages.  You report to Brian White. Your mission is to take charge of
the orphaned packages, decide which should be put out of their misery
and which should be kept, and then find maintainers for the ones that
should be kept. You are authorized to harangue existing maintainers,
use guilt as a motivator, and train current users to be maintainers.
I will authorize any new maintainer you vouch for.

> There's also the 'serial packager' kind of maintainer. Some of us 
> package plenty of software and then give them away...

Not necessarily bad. Ask the developers what they think about the problem,
read their opinions, consult Brian, and decide how to deal with it.

> Maybe it would be good to get a list of all the orphaned packages and 
> tell new potential maintainers to get one of them (maybe old 
> maintainers too). This would have the side effect to show newbies how 
> to make a package before doing one.

Make it so.

> 4) While our bug count heads towards the bug #10000 quite quickly, 
> there are plenty of bugs still unresolved. We should 
> solve/forward/close them.

The fact that we have handled 10000 is not a bad thing. There are a lot
less than 10000 existing at present. Brian's been doing an OK job at
resolving the critical ones for 1.3 .

> 5) Debian has been less and less fun lately.

OK. First, take some time for your life so that Debian is in perspective.
Then, be a bit more patient with your fellows - I was driven up the wall
by nasty, hectoring people and nobody's giving Quinlan any slack either.
And also, take some time to see how successful we are - many of us are
too close to the project to appreciate that. We can learn something if we
look at what has worked and think about why it has worked.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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