Yes, it applies to all FOSS projects. But it's very much a question of practical consequence for using FOSS.
What is "architectural" exactly? AFAIK maintenance *is* an architectural question because it speaks directly to: - version or version(s) installed - when and how versions are updated - backward/forward compatibility Lloyd .............................................. Lloyd Chambers lloyd.chambers at sun.com GlassFish team, LSARC member On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Dean Roehrich wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:50:06AM -0700, Lloyd Chambers wrote: >> 1. When a new final FindBugs release appears, if it's not added to >> Solaris promptly, then who will want to use the Solaris version? The >> update latency must not be longer than a month. > > This applies to all of the FOSS projects we're porting. Every Linux > distro > also has to deal with this latency. > > This is not an architecture question. > > Dean