Senior Debian developer quits core teams
A senior Debian developer, Australian Anthony Towns, has left some core teams of the project and gone quiet in the last couple of weeks, according to project sources.
Towns made an oblique reference to his decision on April 18 with an entry in his personal blog which read, in part: "One of the freedoms I value is the freedom to choose what you spend your time on and who you spend it with. And while I’ve spent a lot of time arguing that people in key roles in Debian still have those freedoms (hey, 2.1(1), don’t you know), reality these days seems to be otherwise."
The reference to 2.1(1) was linked to a section of the Debian constitution that deals with decision-making bodies and individuals; a second link in his post was to the announcement by last year's project leader, Sam Hocevar, that he had appointed fellow developer Joerg Jaspert as a member of the FTP master team and as a full Debian account manager.
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Future doomed ? Tiny pay discouraged volunteers ? Profits key ?
Both Xandros and Linspire, as well as Mapis are Debian based; even tho Ubuntu went off course dancing to their own tunes. Debian project has to be supported by paid customers. Novell may have to participate in some contributions if their enterprise operating system derives from the stability of Debian. That means Debian has to form a foundation to receive contributions in a big way, using Novell staff to manage money?
We have to ask Linus and Andrew to make sure kernels can be ported over to Debian applications(architecture of directories and file names) by compilers and scripts?
Debian is still the stability of Linux distros. Debian has to have their own control of compilers and scripts for Debian's easier survival? Universal compilers and scripts compromises Debian architecture and make bug fixing much harder work then deserved. Start control from source codes to compilers, then control scripts to run Debian without missing bindings or address conflicts?