Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 19: Gentoo Stable Portage Tree -- ideas

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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

Exactly.  I'm finishing up my proofreading and spell-checking and should
be sending out my little idea within the hour.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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