New software created for Ubuntu

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:22:27PM -0600, Adam Conrad wrote:
> On 6/10/2010 12:35 AM, David Paleino wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:31:17 -0400, Elliot Murphy wrote:
> >
> >> I just had a call with various desktopcouch upstream people and we all
> >> agreed that the circular dependency was a mistake that we overlooked.
> >> [..]
> >> We'll be updating the debian bug  report with the plan for solving
> this and
> >> hopefully will release a new upstream version enabling this in the
> next week
> >> or so.
> >
> > And it needed a huge thread to reach this? In the meanwhile I already
> changed
> > the binary package layout [0] in Debian. Thank you.
> 
> No, what was needed was people actually contacting and dealing with the
> upstream authors of the software, I suspect, rather than a public rant and
> dissection of process on a development list whose subscribers (for the
> most part) have nothing to do with the software in question.

It's apparent in the bug report that the relevant Ubuntu developer and
upstream developer were contacted by email.  Unfortunately, they didn't
respond promptly, and the discussion continued without them.

It seems to me that there was goodwill on both sides, and appropriate
process was followed, but for whatever reason, the ball was dropped.  This
will happen sometimes no matter how much goodwill we have.

The important thing is that we recognize that people are trying to do the
right thing, and give them the benefit of the doubt.  That's the only way
we'll build trust.

-- 
 - mdz