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on Saturday September 16 2017, @03:36AM
from the static-is-a-precursor-to-shutdown dept.
from the static-is-a-precursor-to-shutdown dept.
After 13 years the Debian-Administration website will go read-only at the end of the month. Then later in the year it will transform it into a solely static-site so that the articles, weblogs, and associated comments are not lost - and they can be served via single server or two. Mostly this is happening due to lack of new content being added and folks posting more elsewhere.
https://debian-administration.org/article/730/This_site_is_going_to_go_read-only
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @10:17PM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Policies [wikipedia.org] and look at the table "Historical population". 2008 was "peak DD" with 1075. Crisis hit and two years (2009 and 2010) of numbers going down. Probably people having to focus in getting money instead of side projects. Later it recovered, but still below that record... and in 2016 it went down a bit again. systemd brouhaha took place around 2014 (they even voted "no" on keeping compat without non-systemd!?) and things took a bit of time to sink in so 2015 was still positive but 2016 is down (what future is there for Debian hurd or kbsd projects now? or any other package that systemd "obsoletes" via their tentacle creep?). Also crisis is not over (if ever?) and new generations seem to just go "social".
From bug reports, it seems DDs are overloaded, unmotivated, lost their magic touch. (So I am about all this FOSS "corporatization", becoming a monoculture (when RPM only? soonTM), pushing crap to keep their jobs and fighting for control, instead of finishing the old programs they inherited, so maybe I'm projecting.) Years ago a report or new comment was quickly acked, now it can take weeks. Packages with new releases take months to be packaged. You better get youtube-dl from DMO than official unstable if you want to access anything. Just poking around found one dh or similar helper package looking for maintainer. I hope that was just the exception and just hit two unlucky packages. I would also like to see the stats for NMI, both to fix a critical issue (big problem) or just to keep with API/ABIs (minor issue, yet it should be the DD in charge, right?).
But then I go and look at the Social Contract and wonder what happened to what wikipedia distills as "Not hiding problems with the software or organization." and "Staying focused on the users and the software that started the phenomenon." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Social_Contract [wikipedia.org] . Same page also says "Young said this would be a "kiss of death" for RedHat, implying it would constrain the company's ability to generate profit." and I wonder if ignoring the DSC is the kiss of death for Debian.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:01AM
Wikipedia confirms it: Debian is dying! :)