Le dimanche 16 septembre 2007, à 12:48 +0200, Andre Klapper a écrit : > Am Samstag, den 15.09.2007, 19:42 -0500 schrieb Benjamin Gramlich: > > what about changing the development cycle to accommodate such long term > > support distributions? You know, so that there's a long term support of > > 2.16 and then 2.18 & 2.20 are supported for a shorter time. Then 2.22 > > would be another long term support release? > > but what for? > i know gnome product developers that had to put their patches into their > 2.14.x-long-term-support-version, the 2.18.x-current-stable and the > 2.19.x-development branch. it was a huge workload. > gnome does NOT provide big enduser support. gnome users normally get > their distribution from a vendor, on a free or a contract basis. if that > vendor wants to provide long-term support to his customers, he can > always do, but that's not GNOME's task.
Well, if there's a really major bug, I guess it will be fixed in old branches too if possible. But that major bug won't be a crasher reported by bug-buddy (if it's a crasher we'll receive tons of bug reports before the next stable version). It will more likely be a security issue, and this is not what we're talking about here... So, I'd say we do long-term support when it comes to security issues. I don't think any distribution would request more than that from us. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ Gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
