Future of REVU and Debian Mentors

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday 03 August 2007 09:03, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> I'm a bit sad that there seems to be a general attitude among MOTUs that
> we get the tools we are working with crafted by either Debian or
> Launchpad. This raises the assumption that there is not much technical
> understanding needed for packaging software in ubuntu. I do not think
> this is true. I rather think that we should focus more on crafting tools
> which aid us in the daily workflow. With 'us' I mean 'we, the community
> of Ubuntu Developers'.

Thanks for this very thoughtful response.

My point about Debian is not that we have to get tools from there because we 
can't do it, but that Debian is our upstream, has an extensive and well 
proven tool set to do packaging work, and that to the extent we can work 
together with Debian to jointly extend this tool set, both distributions can 
benifit.

My intent was to emphasize working with Debian, not being dependent on them.

Scott K