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I'll start off with a hyperbole: We don't have any of that. But that isn't really true. Arch historically has always been a DIY distribution with an equally DI
by Foxboron 6y ago
I'll start off with a hyperbole: We don't have any of that.
But that isn't really true. Arch historically has always been a DIY distribution with an equally DIY contribution structure. Our leaders has been BDFLs for close to two decades until the process was formalized and we held our first project leader election this year.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Project_Leader https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Project_L...
https://www.archlinux.org/news/the-future-of-the-arch-linux-project-leader/ https://www.archlinux.org/news/the-future-of-the-arch-linux-...
There isn't any RFC process, but some consensus making on the mailing list and who wants to work on stuff.
The only other formalized structure is the Trusted Users which are elected in a formalized process.
https://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html https://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html
There is probably a lot of bad things with a less formalized process, but it allows Arch to move fairly rapidly and decide things without a lot of internal politics.
- toyg 6y agoLet me make a prediction: if Arch survives as long as Debian has, getting the same amount of contributors as Debian got, by the end its internal organisational structures will look a lot like Debian’s. It looks like at the moment it’s where Debian was about 20 years ago.
- Foxboron 6y agoDebian is only 9 years older then Arch though. Debian was 7 years 20 years ago, Arch is 18 years this year.