## 1

I posted like 3 o 4 messages to an Ubuntu mailing list in my life; it happened
when they discussed [DEP-3](http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/), which I think
can help in syncing patches between the 2 distros (or, if you want, in removing
one more excuse for not doing that).

When I did that, I posted with my `@debian.org` address.

If I had upload rights to Ubuntu, which I don't, I would certainly use my
`@debian.org` address, to show to the Ubuntu community where I come from.

Now, why then should a `@ubuntu.com` guy do anything different when uploading
to Debian, no matter which rights he has earned in the (Debian) project? Or
better, sure he can do it differently, but why should we *ask* he to do that?

## 2

DDs have different "philosophies" about which address they use in
`Maintainer`/`Uploaders` fields: some of them consistently use `@debian.org`
address in every package they (co-)maintain; some other use some of their
non-Debian addresses. Shouldn't the latter choice be completely orthogonal to
whether they have a `@ubuntu.com` address?

## 3

As Gaudenz has shown in his master thesis (there's
[a very nice DC9 talk](https://penta.debconf.org/dc9_schedule/events/456.en.html)
about that), Debian has surely lost a lot of "contributors" (people that
interact on lists, BTS, ...) in favor of Ubuntu, but has not lost "uploaders"
(Gaudenz' names were actually different, but I can't remember them and the
slides are in German, which I can't read :-/). In fact, there is a flow of
people which become uploaders to Debian, that come from Ubuntu; that flow most
likely compensates the decrease in the number of Debian contributors which
become uploaders.  So, let's face it, we will have at least for a while people
coming from Ubuntu uploading to our archive, possibly/hopefully because they
like more our free ideals and democratic project management.


These are my *personal* reasons for finding
[some rants](http://sandrotosi.blogspot.com/2009/11/things-that-make-me-angry.html)
pointless.

(But still, that rant finally gave me the opportunity to mention Gaudenz's
work, which I've found pretty impressive!)

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