Our users who currently use stable in various mission critical and other destabalization-averse environments (basically everyone who isn't a single desktop user) need and want stable releases which are supported by the very capable security and stable release teams.
Our stable releases fill a niche that no other FOSS distribution currently fills adequately, though many have tried. While I clearly can't force other developers to work on getting stable released, I personally am very motivated to see it happen for the very fact that I am a user who has systems running in destabalization-averse environments; I'm glad that many other developers feel the same way, because it enables me to work on other things besides having a stable system. Beyond that, conflict, pressure, and stress are all parts of any anarchistic process which is as large as Debian is. However, what you see on the surface via the mailing lists really is a small microcosm of what is going on. Real work rarely happens in MUAs; it happens in editors and on the command line. Don Armstrong -- A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain. -- Anatole France http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
