On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:50:12 +0100 Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > 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).
If money were available, I'm sure there are plenty of skilled project participants that are more than willing to accept it. It could even be incentive- rather than person-based; something like $500 per LTS DSA to whoever gets it done first. Best wishes, Mike -- 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/20111006195749.bd79378b.michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com
