On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 09:18:47PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > 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? > > I'm afraid that a d-d-a posting is not very useful. People who are on > d-d-a already know about Debian LTS and are already well engaged in the > community. > > We are trying to reach our (corporate) users more than our current > contributors. > Ah, ok :) > What kind of changes do you envision? Why is it a problem to combine > an announce and a call for help? > Diff attached! There's not a particular problem, I was trying to work out the audience. We can me more blunt with developers than in an official announcement from the project. Neil
Almost a year after the birth of the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) project[1], Squeeze-LTS can be considered a [-reasonable-] success. Thanks go to the many volunteers and sponsors! Debian 6 “Squeeze” 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 the continued maintenance of Squeeze-LTS. Given this experience, we are confident that Debian 7 “Wheezy” and Debian 8 “Jessie” will benefit from Long Term [-Support as well. Still,-] {+Support. However,+} some [-hard choices-] {+restrictions in coverage+} had to be made for Squeeze-LTS. For example, only x86 PCs (amd64 and i386) are supported, and [-many important-] {+a number of popular+} packages are [-unsupported[2], for instance,-] {+unsupported[2]. For example,+} you cannot run a Xen dom0 or a KVM host with Squeeze, and [-you don't have any supported-] {+there isn't support for+} graphical [-browser either. Yet the-] {+browsers. The+} current team resources are [-barely-] {+only+} enough to keep up with the observed [-workload.-] {+workload, and would be unable to extend this further.+} Thus, if you want Wheezy-LTS to have a better [-coverage,-] {+coverage+} for such use cases and for less popular packages, please consider helping the Debian LTS team, either with developer time[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 for the project and will make plans for Wheezy-LTS (Jessie-LTS still has a few years ahead of it). Now is the time to show your support!
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