Draft for a LTS press release
Hello everybody,
following the recent discussion about wheezy LTS, we got a good suggestion
to make some press release announcing that Wheezy and Jessie will benetift
from LTS support and to use this opportunity to find more help for the
project. I have thus written a first draft of such a press release, it's
in a pad for easy edition/correction:
https://titanpad.com/x9keVJLExl
Draft text:
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Join the LTS project to help shape wheezy & jessie LTS
Almost a year after the birth of the Debian Long Term Support (LTS)
project[1], Squeeze LTS can be considered as a reasonable success: thanks
to many volunteers and sponsors, Debian 6 has seen more than 200 security
uploads since the start of its extended support period. The most widely
used packages have been fixed in a timely fashion and many organizations
can thus safely rely on its continued maintenance.
Given this experience, we are confident that Debian 7 “Wheezy” and
Debian 8 “Jessie” will benefit from Long Term Support as well.
Still, some hard choices have been made for Squeeze LTS. For example, only
amd64 and i386 are supported, and many important packages are
unsupported[2] : you cannot run a Xen dom0 or a KVM host with Squeeze, and
you don't have any supported graphical browser either. Yet the current
team resources are barely enough to keep up with the observed workload.
Thus, if you want Wheezy LTS to have a better coverage (for such use cases
and for less popular packages), please consider helping the Debian LTS
team, either with human resources[3] or with funding[4].
This summer, during DebConf 15 in Heidelberg, the Debian LTS team and the
Debian security team will re-assess the level of support of the project
and will likely try to make plans for Wheezy LTS. Now is the time to show
your support!
Thank you to all the volunteers[5] who contributed and to the organizations
that let them do so: Catalyst, credativ, Électricité de France,
Toshiba, Univention. And thank you to all the sponsors[6] who supported
the project through Freexian's offer : The Positive Internet, AD&D - David
Ayers - IntarS Austria, Blablacar, Domeneshop, Gandi, Trollweb Solutions,
Université Lille 3, Bitfolk, Daevel, Evolix, FOSSter, Freeside Internet
Service, Gree, Greenbone Networks, Intevation, Linuxhotel, Megaspace
Internet Services, MyTux, NUMLOG, Nantes Métropole, Offensive Security,
Seznam.cz and WinGo.
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/LTS
[2] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/debian-security-support.git/plain/security-support-ended.deb6
[3] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development
[4] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Funding
[5] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Team
[6] http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html#sponsors
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Comments are welcome !
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html
Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
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