On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:11:48PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Wow, hopefully not ! LTS is an effort by the Debian project. What the > > external company does is an effort to *FUND* individual to work on it. > > Currently, only Freexian does this sponsor gathering and redistribution > > work, but it's my understanding that it would be perfectly valid (but > > IMO probably not desirable at this point) that another company competes > > with this funding effort. > > I don't think it would ever be a good idea to have companies competing > on that. > > No matter whether it's the Debian release team for stable or Freexian > for LTS, you need one place where the decisions are made. Thomas pointed out that the (current) LTS design allows for several companies competing about *funding sources*, not about the work. Eg there could be a company collecting money to exclusivly fund DDs from Latin America or only women or... anyone. > > So yes, LTS is fully part of the Debian project, and how Python 2.7 is > > supported should IMO very much be our concern. > Such decisions are made by Freexian and their sponsors. No, those decisions are made by those doing the work. (And eg I work for myself, not for Freexian.) -- cheers, Holger
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature