On Thu, 05 Jul 2012, Claire Robinson wrote: > These recent attacks are causing even more work for us, which again helps > nobody, and diverts our attention away from where it is really needed. Also > I would point out that having to validate the same package several times > obviously lessens the amount of time we can spend elsewhere, which > compounds the problem.
A disagreement is not an attack. > > If the current situation is indeed such an intolerable issue then perhaps > we should think seriously if we currently have the resources to maintain > two active releases or rethink our ability to open backports, instead of > bullying those who are already stretched too thinly. If there is too much workload, a solution is to provide only limited support and stop trying to fix all bugs with stable updates: only important security issue and critical bugs are fixed with an update, all other bugs are fixed in Cauldron only. This is what is done in most other distributions.
