Ubuntu needs a new development model

[Ryan Oram]

On Thu May 6 05:37:30 +0000, <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Scott K

The idea of developers being better maintainers is a bit of economic
theory. My goal is to make the Linux distribution more scalable. If
developers concentrate on their packages and distributions concentrate
on the core operating system, this make for a much more efficient
system there is much less duplicated work. The cost of adding more
software to a distribution under this system would rapidly approach
zero, as the distribution would just run a minimal check and do
minimal testing.

Ryan