First off- this definitely has my full support.
I didn't have a chance to read the meeting notes. I wish I hadn't missed this
meeting. I actually do have concerns I think we should look into despite
being an advocate of this approach. In any case the meeting does sum up
exactly what I've been saying.
I'm not sure all of the reasons this is moving forward although it sounds
like Ubuntu's leap to a rolling release and the lack of funding are a big
part of it. And I am attributing the lack of time/development resources to
the lack of proper funding.
However- that said this is really a great move. It'll push things forward and
hopefully fix a lot of the problems we currently have with GNU/Linux. The
issues which I'm hoping will be fixed effect a lot more than just Trisquel.
They negatively effect distributions across the board. This really could make
Trisquel one of the best distributions out there (if it isn't already).
Now the trick will be to get everything right. Some of the packages might be
tricky to back port and there could be issues introduced that might make this
initiative backfire. Hopefully though my concerns are unfounded and things go
smoothly.
I think we need to do a little more basic testing of the concept with
Trisquel 4 and see if this approach can work. As long as there aren't major
hurdles for backporting HPLIP or issues with the graphics components being
tied to a newer kernel I think this might just work great.
