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

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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


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