Hia, Thanks for thinking of press@ :) This seems a bit of a mix between a press release and a d-d-a posting. What are you after from this - are we announcing that LTS is happening for Wheezy/Jessie, or are we after a call for help? If the former, then we should definitely change quite a bit of the wording in paragraph 4 to soften it. If the latter - would a d-d-a posting do instead? Neil On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 03:24:03PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 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: > --- > 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 > --- > > 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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