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On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 17:19 +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> On Friday 06 January 2006 16:27, Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> > As seen from the discussion earlier this week, I don't think Gentoo has |
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> > the proper open-mindness to create a proper enterprise distro. |
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> This has nothing to with open-mindness, but having enough people doing the |
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> general maintenance of a clearly defined frozen (sub-)tree as well as |
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> backports to fix vulnerabilities and other critical issues, without negative |
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> effects on other Gentoo subprojects (like "I work now on GLEP 19 stuff and |
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> don't care what I leave unmaintained instead."). Don't expect that |
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> maintainers of packages of the current tree do backports for a GLEP 19 tree. |
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> This is something the proponents would need to do themselves. You can't |
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> expect a commitment of the whole developer crowd in something only a minority |
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> is interested in. This doesn't mean there can't be a frozen tree within the |
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> context of Gentoo or as a separate project, of course. |
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Exactly. I'm finishing up my proofreading and spell-checking and should |
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be sending out my little idea within the hour. |
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