Branden Robinson Lays Down the Law at Debian

Posted by timothy on Monday April 25, 2005 @05:13PM from the testing-the-mic dept.

darthcamaro writes "Newly elected Debian Project Leader Branden Robinson posted his first report as DPL. From the looks of it, Debian is flat broke, with only $40,000 or so in cash on hand. In an interview on internetnews.com, though, Robinson talks about whether Debian should even hold onto any money at all. Holding onto cash is also likely not what those who donate to the Debian Project expect either, according to Robinson. "People who donate us money ... seem to expect us to put the money to work for us in the near-term, not towards establishing an endowment,' he said."

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Debian, the fossil by AvantLegion · 2005-04-25 18:59 · Score: 1, Troll

Debian is quickly becoming akin to a fossil. It sits there, not actually doing anything. But it leaves evidence of having done something in the past.
Re:All for the love of Ubuntu by gnuman99 · 2005-04-26 05:41 · Score: 0, Troll

Only the base can hold Debian releases. Other applications do not because they can be removed from the release. Right now, the slow release cycle has nothing to do with X, KDE or GNOME or any other package but the base. The RC bugs in base are showstoppers. The RC bugs in other packages will just make these packages disappear from the release.