On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 06:41:32PM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > I agree. Long-term support is not sexy, and it's not something that > most FLOSS developers (or developers in general, in my experience) have > any interest in working on. The best way that most companies know to > motivate them is to pay them. This is why RHEL, Canonical, and other > companies charge so much for support contracts. I'm not sure how > anybody could motivate a large enough group Debian developers to work on > an LTS release.
The idea I was raising (based on the security team notes) was along the lines of getting a foundation together to fund that work specifically. I have no real idea whether there are people around who would be ready and willing to do the work on a paid basis, of course, but I can't help thinking that the money is likely to be there if the coordination and willing expertise is also there (that's a big if, of course). Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111006085012.gw14...@urchin.earth.li
