Le 2012-12-10 12:07, [email protected] a écrit :
You do bring up an interesting point about future releases being based on LTS only and then backporting necessary packages and fixes in the "toutatis-backports" repostory. The repository exists, so why not use it??
Exactly. Like an install of Debian Squeeze with the Squeeze-backports repo enabled.
Like many of you said, this is a one man team who has his priorities set right now on his full time job and not Trisquel. Being a member and sending more money this way has no guarantee if this will change or any proof that he will use it towards this project. He rarely communicates with the community and does not often listen to suggestions.
As I don't know Ruben I'm just speculating, but bear in mind that the economic situation of Spain (and most of Europe) is not good at all. The unemployment rate among the young in Spain is 50%! You can't blame Trisquel's main dev from trying to make a living with his company and not giving full priority to the Trisquel project, which, as Chris repeatedly reminds us, doesn't provide him with enough money to drop his day job.
If this release pushes into 2013, then I believe there should be some soul searching for a lot of Trisquel users to switch to another distro like Parabola or go back to Ubuntu and purge out the non-free packages themselves.
Why so dramatic? Trisquel is still the best 100% free distro out there and Brigantia works perfectly fine; it's not as if we were stuck with an incredibly out-of-date current version. Granted, Toutatis is taking a lot of time to be released, but it will be there soon (RC3 is currently available). I hope that, when releasing Toutatis, Ruben will communicate his plans for future releases so that we don't spend 2013 wondering what's going on :).
