On Friday, January 04, 2013 08:23:58 H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:15:34AM -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Friday, January 04, 2013 15:20:02 Johannes Pfau wrote: > > > And most important: Were the main developers part of that discussion > > > / have they agreed? While I agree LTS would be nice it needs someone > > > to do it. You also have to consider the available man power. > > > > For the most part, I don't think that they were. I think that Andrei > > was really the only one of us involved at all, though I'd have to look > > at the thread again to be sure. > > [...] > > We solicited for core dev involvement in that thread, but AFAIK, there > was only limited participation. It felt like we were just talking about > castles in the air, because the people who would actually be > implementing the process didn't say very much at all. So I wasn't at all > surprised at the misunderstandings in this thread. > > Still, I think we're finally converging on the same page here, so that's > a good thing.
The thread was way too big, and I had too little time to get into that conversation, which is why I wasn't involved. - Jonathan M Davis