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

[Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>]

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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.


Carsten

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