Re: Discussing issues

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 08:13:51AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: 
> I am not sure i follow you exactly here, to be able to vote at debian
> elections, you have to be a debian developper and becoming one is quite
> a involved thing.

I used to be a Debian developer in fact. I think they eventually
lapsed my account after a couple years of inactivity.

There are numerous Debian developers, and there's a clear process to
become one.
 
> Sure the personal contribution of a debian developper may only be to
> package a few packages, i package 10 for example, but the average is
> around 7-1 i think, and we don't kick out unactive developpers or such,
> altough people got kicked out over abuse of debian facilities and such,
> but the debian situation is different from the XFree86 one, since it is
> comprissed of mostly a lot of small packages, not a huge single one.

Of course, many people are suggesting that XFree86 be modularized for
precisely this reason.

Havoc