On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:53:05AM +0000, Andre Felipe Machado wrote: > This week, Sun Wah Linux talked about DCC Alliance: > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1845318,00.asp > > "Nonetheless, we believe that this activity should be carried out as much as > possible within the Debian Project. At this time, the DCC Alliance and the > Debian Project are separate entities, and the DCC Alliance's release of the > Debian Common Core, even though it is argued as 100 percent Debian > interchangeable, is certainly a fork in the Project," said Shuji.
Please make sure you quote correctly. Shuji is VA Linux Japan's VP of marketing and neither working nor speaking for Sun Wah. Also I wonder why he thinks this is a fork? I read a lot of email conversaton and spoke to a lot of person but never got the impression a fork is planned, it would not be acceptable for most companies forming the DCCA anyway. > Is it not possible to integrate these DCC nice ideas into Debian? > - predictable releases (18 to 24 months server, 6 to 12 months desktop?) > - predictable support for time after release > - a Debian base core (kernel, key libraries, etc) > - componentized and "isolated building blocks" sw (gnome, kde, X, apache, etc) It is possible and it is the goal to do exactly that. I cannot speak for anyone but myself but since our distribution is Debian pure working on DCC wouldn't make sense if it wasn't doable inside the Debian project. > DCC is a good initiative and would be nice to get it into Debian (the > technical part) as a sub project / CDD / task group / work group. > By integrating into Debian, costs will be lowered and benefits will be > multiplied. The commercial part still will have to be carried out of Debian, > I guess. It seems everyone including the DCCA agrees that a sub project would be the best idea, so why not seeting it up? Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
