Hello,
I have been deleting most of these emails, but I feel like this is a bit myopic.
On Tuesday, April 2, 2024 6:25:56 PM EDT Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
And, more importantly, the industry has agreed to use the term supply chain. Is the term perhaps overloaded, or perhaps too ill-defined/imprecise? Sure. But if one wants to use a different term one would need to work across the industry to change the term, and that is not going to happen.
Well, one could argue that Free Software is a community, not an industry, so "the industry" cannot agree on anything, and "supply chain" as an industrial term obviously does not apply.
But it does. The term "supply chain" refers to the process of acquiring, organizing, and distributing the necessary resources and components to build and maintain the distribution. This includes acquiring source code from various upstream projects, integrating them into the distribution, and then packaging and distributing the final product to end-users. The supply chain involves a variety of tasks such as software development, testing, quality assurance, responding to bug reports, documentation, and support. IOW, it is a process.
It is the community that carries out the process.
-Steve