Re: LSB?

[Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>]

"Wayne" == Wayne Schlitt <wayne@midwestcs.com> writes:

Wayne> To the best of my knowledge, the LSB lists have never been
Wayne> *closed* to the general public.  I have been subscribed to them
Wayne> for months, and I found out about them by reading /.,
Wayne> debian-devel, and looking at a few web pages.

Historical note: the original LSB list predates this, set up by Bruce
in July and including just a few distribution and ISV representatives
-- most of whom had met in person at the Expo in May.  It was closed,
but did have Debian people on it (and was run on one of our
mail servers).

After he resigned in August, Debian and Red Hat quickly agreed to
continue creation of a written standard under the name LCS.  Up until
then the LSB was focused mainly on creating a reference implantation,
not the specification we wanted.

But the remaining members of the LSB wanted a written spec too, so LCS
merged back into LSB again, becoming a subproject.  Project leadership
was reorganized under Dan Quinlan who opened up the lists on August
24.

There were some press releases and /. postings about this, which in
addition to reassuring everyone was also meant to crush the LSA, which
was effective.  (The LSA situation at that time had achieved Crisis
status on IRC.)

The rest is on the web archives at linuxbase.org, housed at Transmeta.
Debian still manages the LSBs actual mailing lists.


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