[jitl]

I worry about Debian’s future. The infrastructure of the project is slow moving and baroque. Not many people want to learn it to become maintainers. Michael Stapelberg’s blog post about leaving Debian describes the general issue of using tooling and process with 1994 leverage to tackle problems with 2022 scale, does not sound fun: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin...

I tried to get into Debian package ownership while a student, but came to realize I would need a substantial financial incentive to interact with Debian’s machinery. I spent a while running FreeBSD after that.

[jeremiah]

Some of these issues are well known in Debian and being addressed; https://salsa.debian.org/debian/grow-your-ideas/-/issues

[jitl]

I spent a couple minutes poking around in here and saw mostly incremental ideas and not much momentum. Still I hope this effort is successful. The switch to Gitlab seems like a boon already.

[ianai]

Any idea what’s keeping it from doing a revamp?

[rlpb]

I think there's a lot of naivety around understanding what a distribution does and why they do things the way they do. This article is full of that. And yet, most people in the ecosystem depend on the product.

In other words, I'm questioning whether a revamp is needed at all (as opposed to incremental improvements which are happening all the time). This article might be making some claims in that direction, but has had most of its points debunked in this HN thread already.