Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-06 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 06:41:32PM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: I agree. Long-term support is not sexy, and it's not something that most FLOSS developers (or developers in general, in my experience) have any interest in working on. The best way that most companies know to motivate them is to

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-06 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2011-10-04 at 11:59 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: Hi all, I recall coming across the proposal/discussion in http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSecurity/Meetings/2011-01-14 shortly after that wiki page was published, and thought it was something which was worth persuing. I don't

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-06 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org schrieb: On mar., 2011-10-04 at 11:59 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: Hi all, I recall coming across the proposal/discussion in http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSecurity/Meetings/2011-01-14 shortly after that wiki page was published, and thought it was

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-06 Thread 4k3nd0
On 10/06/2011 06:03 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: Yves-Alexis Perezcor...@debian.org schrieb: On mar., 2011-10-04 at 11:59 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: Hi all, I recall coming across the proposal/discussion in http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSecurity/Meetings/2011-01-14 shortly after that

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-06 Thread Poison Bit
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:26 PM, 4k3nd0 4k3...@googlemail.com wrote: This is a major issue about Debian anyway. A good reason why i choose Debian instead to other distribution is simply, that the software is good tested and stable. That is what matters. System to maintain getting even harder

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:50:12 +0100 Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 06:41:32PM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: I agree. Long-term support is not sexy, and it's not something that most FLOSS developers (or developers in general, in my experience) have any interest in working

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-06 Thread jordon
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:50:12 +0100 Dominic Hargreaves wrote: If money were available, I'm sure there are plenty of skilled project participants that are more than willing to accept it. It could even be incentive- rather than person-based; something like $500 per LTS DSA to whoever gets it

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:50:18 -0700 jor...@envygeeks.com wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:50:12 +0100 Dominic Hargreaves wrote: If money were available, I'm sure there are plenty of skilled project participants that are more than willing to accept it. It could even be incentive- rather than

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-06 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Sythos wrote: On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:13:33 +0200 wer...@aloah-from-hell.de wrote: The major benefit of opensource software is the darwin effect, good software evolve quickly, bad software die, force a maintainer to work on a software for 2 years more than usual may mean force a unusefull

Re: Debian LTS?

2011-10-06 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 02:00:38PM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: I would like to see all major release having support for 5 years. And yes, I do see the problems with that too. But the long term support can concentrate on bug fixes only (security and product functionality). I'd like to