Re: Draft announce of Debian 6 LTS, please review quickly
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> So, minor nitpicks:
> > For more information, see
> > Freexian's presentation of its
> > <a href="http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html";>Debian LTS
> > offer</a>.</p>
> =>
> For more information, see Freexian's description of this <a
> href="http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html";>plan</a>.
OK, I changed this to:
For more information, see
<a href="http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html";>Freexian's
description of their proposal</a>.</p>
> > <p>The Debian Project welcomes this initiative, and is generally supportive
> > of organizations exploring new ways to help sustain the LTS project and
> > Debian in general.</p>
> s/new ways/ways/
Corrected.
> > <p>Shall Debian 6 LTS be a success, it would be reconducted and
> > generalized so that Debian 7 (<q>wheezy</q>) and Debian 8 (<q>jessie</q>)
> > would also benefit from Long Term Support.</p>
>
> "it" is not very clear in this paragraph.
I think it's clear that it refers to the Debian 6 LTS project. I prefer to
avoid a repetition here. It would sound clunky.
Updated draft attached, with addition of Univention, and with fixes from
Adam Baratt.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook:
→ http://debian-handbook.info/get/
<define-tag pagetitle>Debian 6 debuts its long term support period</define-tag>
<define-tag release_date>2014-06-16</define-tag>
#use wml::debian::news
# $Id:
<p>The Debian project is pleased to announce that the <q>Long Term Support
(LTS)</q> infrastructure to provide security updates for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
(code name <q>squeeze</q>) until February 2016 is now in place. Users of
this version should follow the <a
href="https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using";>instructions from the LTS wiki
page</a> to ensure that they get the LTS security updates.</p>
<p>Several organizations have already expressed interest in contributing to the
LTS initiative. We would like to thank
<a href="http://www.intars.at/";>AD&D - IntarS Austria</a>,
<a href="http://www.deezer.com/";>Deezer</a>,
<a href="http://www.edf.com/";>Électricité de France</a>,
<a href="http://freeside.biz/";>Freeside</a>,
<a href="http://www.offensive-security.com/";>Offensive Security</a>,
<a href="http://www.positive-internet.com/";>Positive Internet</a>,
<a href="http://www.seznam.cz/";>Seznam.cz</a>,
<a href="http://www.sipwise.com/";>Sipwise</a>,
<a href="http://www.univention.de/";>Univention</a>,
<a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/";>University of Oxford</a>
and all the others who will join them in the coming months.</p>
<p>However, to ensure its success and cover more packages, more help is
needed: organizations benefiting from the extended support period are
encouraged to contribute manpower to the <a
href="https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development";>LTS team</a>.
<p>For organizations that cannot contribute their own workforce to the LTS
team, <a href="http://www.freexian.com";>Freexian</a> — a French company
owned by Debian Developer Raphaël Hertzog — offered to act as an intermediary
between organizations interested in funding LTS work, and individual Debian
contributors preparing LTS security updates. For more information, see
<a href="http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html";>Freexian's description
of their proposal</a>.</p>
<p>The Debian Project welcomes this initiative, and is generally supportive
of organizations exploring ways to help sustain the LTS project and
Debian in general.</p>
<p>Should Debian 6 LTS be a success, it would be repeated and
generalized so that Debian 7 (<q>wheezy</q>) and Debian 8 (<q>jessie</q>)
would also benefit from Long Term Support.</p>
<p>More information can be found in the <a
href="https://wiki.debian.org/LTS";>Debian LTS project's wiki page</a>.</p>
<h2>About Debian</h2>
<p>The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free
operating system Debian.</p>
<h2>Contact Information</h2>
<p>For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at <a
href="$(HOME)/">https://www.debian.org/</a>, send mail to
<press@debian.org>, or contact the LTS team at
<debian-lts@lists.debian.org>.</p>
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