Dunc-Tank continues to make splash
Dunc-Tank, the unofficial organization set up to fund selected Debian activities, has made its first experimental payment to release managers, but community members are still debating whether a missed deadline and the alleged demotivation of some programmers make the experiment a failure.
As reported previously, Dunc-Tank is managed by leading Debian developers, including Anthony Towns, the Debian Leader, and Steve McIntyre. The organization has been controversial since its announcement in September, with such concerns being raised as whether paying some developers would demotivate others, and whether the composition of Dunc-Tank would cause outsiders to believe that it was an officially sanctioned project. The group was satirized by the Dunc-Bank site, and its advent even resulted in a general resolution to impeach Towns for conflict of interest.
The resolution failed, and, although the controversy continued, Dunc-Tank was able to pay release managers Steve Langasek and Andreas Barth for one month each in the hopes of Etch, the next Debian release, being ready for December 4. However, with the general freeze on Debian packages -- the last major milestone before the release -- occurring only on December 11, the release seems unlikely to occur before the end of January 2007.
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