[Desktop13.04-Topic] Reduce patch burden

[Michael Terry]

On Wed 14 Nov 2012 18:29:48 EST, Thomas Prost wrote:
> UPSTREAM seems to be one of the most-used words on-list here !??
> Could someone please explain to the newbie, what this is ?

>From Wikipedia:
"In software development, upstream refers to a direction toward the 
original authors or maintainers of software that is distributed as 
source code, and is a qualification of either a bug or a patch."

So in Ubuntu's case, Debian and the original software authors are both 
upstream of us.  We are downstream.

-mt