[Desktop13.04-Topic] Reduce patch burden
Michael Terry
michael.terry at canonical.com
Wed Nov 14 23:33:47 UTC 2012
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
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