Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 02:18:23PM -0500, Al Dunsmuir wrote:
> Hello Matthew,
> > Other distributions manage this without too much trouble, so I don't see
> > it being a problem to adopt this policy.
> 1 word: Resources - person power, time, funding, equipment, etc.
> 
> Fedora  is  a  free  software  distribution  "staffed"  informally  by
> volunteers  (except for that minority of folks who may be paid to work
> on Fedora as their day job).
> 
> RHEL  has  the resources to backport.  Centos uses those backpotrs for
> free,  but does not generate them (unless again the party supporting a
> component for Centos happens to be upstream in RHEL).

Debian has historically managed this. I really don't buy the argument 
that security or other critical fixes are generally difficult to 
backport.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org