On 2018-02-22 at 09:45, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 02:57:07PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Philip Hands wrote: >> >>> I'm in favour of making it possible for our users to build >>> structures that enable longer support periods if that's what they >>> require. There would seem to be a need for an OS that would have >>> support measured in decades rather than years, and we should not >>> get in the way of Debian being that OS. >> >> Indeed. And it's the reason why I mentionned CIP in my initial >> mail. They are not interested in longer support for wheezy (too >> early for them) but they are interested in working with us and >> helping us to make this possible as part of Debian. One of the >> persons I am in contact with mentioned that CIP members could (at >> some point) contribute security updates within Debian. >> >> Looking a bit further, I see a way forward where we have the >> security team (first 3 years), the LTS team (next 2 years), CIP >> members (next 10 years) taking over the charge of security updates >> for a given release. >> >> And indeed if we prepare the infrastructure for this by finding a >> way to host the updates for wheezy for longer than expected, we >> pave the way for CIP to take over security maintenance of our old >> releases. > But what is "CIP"? > > > My websearch did bring up "Clean In Place" and "Christelijk > Intromatie Platform" ... Referring back to Raphael's original mail, it would appear to stand for "Civil Infrastructure Project". -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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