Ubuntu needs a new development model

[Scott Kitterman]

"Ryan Oram" <ryan at infinityos.net> wrote:

>It seems like a good site, but I ultimately feel it should be the
>developer themselves who package the applications, as the developers
>will have a much greater incentive to make working and tested packages
>then the maintainers (no offense to the great work of the maintainers
>of Ubuntu and Debian).
>
Thinking you need to say "no offense" is generally a good sign to avoid saying what you are considering  saying if you actually care to avoid offense. 

My experience is rather the opposite. Most upstreams care about developing their computer programs (as they should). Packaging for a distro is rather different and specialized. Having upstream involvement is great (and in in some cases essential), but upstream developers are not usually the best distro maintainers.

Where I'm upstream I don't attempt to insert myself in packaging for RPM distros,  but am glad to answer questions if their maintainers have them.

Scott K