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Re: THOUGHT: New 'user-contributed' section?

On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

>  * better have some active users than inactive maintainers.
>    many people are only willing to package a program, but not to
>    maintain it for a long time. if they make a first package,
>    and someone takes it over, both sides could be happy.

Err... I'm not sure about this one.
Although there a part of truth in your statment, this may encourage some 
lazy maintainers to say "ho well, why bother fixing bugs since the users 
contributed version is better".

(Note that I personaly think we should not allow a package to be in both 
users-contrib and in the main section: if a user have something better to 
propose for a package, he shall post it to the bug system, and either the 
maintainer will make the upload, or someone from the QA group will do so
after a while)


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