Re: [Debian-sf-devel] Re: Return of the Jedi

[Steve Mallett]

On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 01:59  PM, Tim Perdue wrote:

> Roland Mas wrote:
>
> >   Don't get me wrong: there are absolutely no bad feelings between us
> > Debian-SF people and Tim.  He's one of us, he works on the same CVS
> > tree (although he doesn't feel confident enough to commit changes to
> > the trunk yet), we work together to port our packaging to the Gforge
> > branch, and his changes to our trunk, we all expect to be able to
> > merge the two branches sometime so that we only have one code to
> > maintain.  I was just a bit... disappointed that Debian-SF not only
> > was't even hinted at, but its existence was positively denied (the
> > "others have failed" was not very flattering)
>
> Roland, I don't think you have to feel belittled. I don't think it was 
> intended as an attack on you, but rather a bunch of flattery aimed at 
> me. It's possible that Steve was not aware of your efforts, or is not 
> a debian user.
>
> There has been a lot of work that went into Debian-SF in the past 1-2 
> years, including a lot of very useful internationalization. But I 
> don't agree that "significant" changes have been made, in terms of new 
> features.
>
> Significant changes, such as a new task/project manager, are yet to 
> come, and I think it's important that we roll those changes into as 
> many of the different forks that are out there as possible.
>
> Tim

Well, I'm going to step up to the plate on this one.  My impression of 
the debian-sf was that it hadn't progressed past an apt-get install of 
the original base.  Failure does seem a bit harsh in retrospect.

However; from the Debain-SF website I feel that my impression is mostly 
right unless you suffer from being shy about it: "In practice, you only 
get a mostly-functional Sourceforge server running in a matter of 
minutes with no hassle."  Not exactly flattering in your own words.

I'd be really pleased to indicate otherwise and toot the horn for 
debian-sf if reality is otherwise?

It certainly wasn't meant as an attack.

Steve Mallett
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