On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 17:19 +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Friday 06 January 2006 16:27, Lance Albertson wrote: > > As seen from the discussion earlier this week, I don't think Gentoo has > > the proper open-mindness to create a proper enterprise distro. > > This has nothing to with open-mindness, but having enough people doing the > general maintenance of a clearly defined frozen (sub-)tree as well as > backports to fix vulnerabilities and other critical issues, without negative > effects on other Gentoo subprojects (like "I work now on GLEP 19 stuff and > don't care what I leave unmaintained instead."). Don't expect that > maintainers of packages of the current tree do backports for a GLEP 19 tree. > This is something the proponents would need to do themselves. You can't > expect a commitment of the whole developer crowd in something only a minority > is interested in. This doesn't mean there can't be a frozen tree within the > context of Gentoo or as a separate project, of course.
Exactly. I'm finishing up my proofreading and spell-checking and should be sending out my little idea within the hour. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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