Why is he leaving the project? I saw systemd mentioned in one of the replies. Could anyone provide some more information about what’s going on inside Debian?
What I’d like to note is that the news that debian is making lately has more to do with people leaving or wishing to propose a fork of debian than with something really exciting coming about.
I don’t know why this person is leaving, but as a Debian user, I like that nothing “exciting” is happening. That’s why I use it.
If I wanted bleeding edge, breaking changes, and incompatibility, I wouldn’t be using Debian. There are plenty of distros for that, but I appreciate that Debian is more stable.
Exciting does not mean doing bleeding edge and broken stuff within the debian-stable, but creating ideas for making debian better. People leaving or wanting to fork the project means that they are not excited about it as they were. I think the term is clear now in its context.
What a bummer. I’ve been using Debian since the 90’s. Read a few manpages from the Debian tools and you can’t help but run into Joey’s name. He’s done a ton of the work around package management.
Joey’s also the author and maintainer of git-annex, written in Haskell. In that sense, his main work won’t be on another distro – it’s likely to remain git-annex. But, like I know.
I have been pondering that as well. I’ve only got some experience with OpenBSD, not FreeBSD and I really liked how clean and easy to use it was. Top notch documentation.
On the other hand, after all these years I can kick out Windows because most games I play can be played either through Wine or Steam. So that is keeping me from switching to FreeBSD. (And don’t suggest consoles, thanks!)
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Thanks. Despite being a long-time Debian user, I don’t really know who among the project is a name brand.
Does that mean Crackmonkey is coming back?
Why is he leaving the project? I saw systemd mentioned in one of the replies. Could anyone provide some more information about what’s going on inside Debian?
I have no particular insight but this post from his blog is interesting:
https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/gr_vs_consensus/
What I’d like to note is that the news that debian is making lately has more to do with people leaving or wishing to propose a fork of debian than with something really exciting coming about.
I don’t know why this person is leaving, but as a Debian user, I like that nothing “exciting” is happening. That’s why I use it.
If I wanted bleeding edge, breaking changes, and incompatibility, I wouldn’t be using Debian. There are plenty of distros for that, but I appreciate that Debian is more stable.
Exciting does not mean doing bleeding edge and broken stuff within the debian-stable, but creating ideas for making debian better. People leaving or wanting to fork the project means that they are not excited about it as they were. I think the term is clear now in its context.
I would be interested to know where people like him are going, Linux-wise.
What a bummer. I’ve been using Debian since the 90’s. Read a few manpages from the Debian tools and you can’t help but run into Joey’s name. He’s done a ton of the work around package management.
Joey’s also the author and maintainer of git-annex, written in Haskell. In that sense, his main work won’t be on another distro – it’s likely to remain git-annex. But, like I know.
Linux may be an excessive assumption - at least some people are leaving Debian for FreeBSD.
I have been pondering that as well. I’ve only got some experience with OpenBSD, not FreeBSD and I really liked how clean and easy to use it was. Top notch documentation.
On the other hand, after all these years I can kick out Windows because most games I play can be played either through Wine or Steam. So that is keeping me from switching to FreeBSD. (And don’t suggest consoles, thanks!)