* Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-28 11:46]: > At DebConf, it was announced that there are somewhere around 130 > different distros based on Debian. Do you think that bringing some > of these closer together, and closer to Debian proper, is a bad > thing?
I agree that this is a good idea but I fail to see how this new alliance will bring this about. Why do we need yet another 3rd party to foster closer cooperation with Debian (instead of creating the structures which are needed within Debian)? Do you seriously think that a new organization which hasn't actually talked to Debian at all before being created will help bring some of these closer to Debian proper? What is this alliance about exactly anyway? From what I've seen, it takes the core of Debian and offers some guarantees to ISVs, such as longer security support and possible updates to some packages. If this is correct, this sounds like a combination for better security support of a certain base plus the idea of volatile.d.net to me. Why don't you offer your resources to the Debian project, help out with the security team and support the volatile.d.net project (and then we could possibly also upgrade it to an official service)? This way, everyone would benefit, we could truly call it the "Debian core" and your alliance would still get the credit for making it happen and for working with ISVs (the former being something companies can do much better than Debian as a project). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
