Let good developers like Mozilla to maintenance their packages
Benjamin Drung
bdrung at ubuntu.com
Fri Sep 20 21:34:39 UTC 2013
Am Freitag, den 20.09.2013, 14:06 -0400 schrieb Felix Miata:
> On 2013-09-21 00:40 (GMT+0800) PillowSky composed:
>
> > Post on ubuntuforum
> > Link:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2175314
> > In the E-mail is just a summary.
>
> > I find none of the maintainers are the software developers themselves.
>
> Here's one reason why:
>
> Ubuntu was born less than 9 years ago. Of the most popular current distros,
> it's among the youngest. The more mature Mozilla developers picked their
> Linux distros before Ubuntu did more than a little maturing, 10-15 years ago,
> so these more experienced developers are mostly RedHat->Fedora (heavily
> Gnome/GTK), SuSE->openSUSE (more evenly KDE as Gnome),
> Mandrake->Mandriva->Mageia (more strongly KDE than Gnome), Debian, Slackware
> and maybe a few other more mature distro users. Most devs don't switch
> distros willy nilly. Those Mozilla devs using *buntu are mostly younger and
> less experienced, and more likely volunteers than subsidized or salaried to
> work on Mozilla.
You told us a lot assumptions. Do you have any statistics that support
your theory?
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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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