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> The package maintainers doing substantive backporting work for any distribution absolutely are actual developers. The maintainers doing the backporting are a
by seoaeu 5y ago
> The package maintainers doing substantive backporting work for any distribution absolutely are actual developers.
The maintainers doing the backporting are affiliated with the distro rather than being developers of the software they're doing backports for. That is a big distinction because it determines who has to incur the costs of compensating them/recruiting them to volunteer
- pxc 5y agoOh! On this interpretation, the GP comment is basically missing an instance of the definite article there: > And usually you only have package maintainers doing this, not the actual developers. It's not super unusual for the maintainers of some program's packages in several distros to also be core developers of the project, but yeah, that's a good point.