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Talking With Debian's Branden Robinson

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the open-source-is-made-of-people dept.

v.ciaglia writes to tell us that TuxJournal has a great interview with Branden Robinson, one of the Debian maintainers. The article has a nice mix of personal and Debian specific questions. From the interview: "My primary focus as Debian Project Leader has been to try to resolve some long-standing infrastructural issues that have been frustrating our developers and users. My emphasis has been on internal processes because, as I said above, I think we need to be prepared for more growth. I am very happy to speak at conferences and with the press about Debian, but fundamentally I think Debian sells itself. Because of that, I want to make sure that we're "ready to ship" -- ready to meet the demands of our users."

6 of 104 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Server down .. by antiMStroll · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha ha. Works perfectly here. You must be on an XP desktop.

  2. Re:Future Growth? by Vorondil28 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    why plan for "future growth" if the markets and stastics show you aren't going to grow

    I can not fathom the lack of logic in that statement.

    If you don't plan to grow, you won't, regardless of markets and statistics. Based on your logic, if a college football team is ranked at the bottom of a poll before the season starts they should forfeit every game.

    <sarcasm>Brilliant...</sarcasm>

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  3. Re:Grammar/Language by digitaldc · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can do better then this.

    'Than' would be better than then, then?

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  4. No mention of Ubuntu? by marcushnk · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if that's now a clause in his interview contracts:
    I will not talk about Ubuntu.
    Do not ask me about Ubuntu.
    If you force me to listen to a question about Ubuntu I will stick my fingers in my ears like this and go "LaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLa!" :-P

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  5. Re:Debian is great, this article is not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    When he isn't sounding stiff and boring, he's busy sounding like an RMS clone ("we don't exist merely at the sufferance of a corporate entity" *puke*).

    Overrated. Debian actually *is* about Free Software. It's not just RMS-clonage, it's what their charter is.

    And Debian actually *is* the only significant distro that isn't tied to a corporation. Which matters.

    Hell I use Fedora myself, but you can't use it and not be aware that it's pwned by Red Hat. The community is largely irrelevant astro-turf. If Red Hat turned around tomorrow and said "fly Fedora, be free!" it would sink like a lead weight.

    But otherwise, I agree TFA blows.
  6. Sounding like RMS isn't bad. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your comment about sounding like RMS went without justification. Perhaps if more people listened to what RMS said and why, we'd have a community of people who aren't so eager to give up their software freedom for a little convenience.