Can't you just create the branch yourself? It's open source. You just
clone it and can keep it in Github for free. Then you can apply
security patches to just the applications you need yourself. If it's
too difficult you can hire people to apply just specific patches.
With Github pull requests it's deadly easy. I am sure that if you
asked maintainers to do the patching for a financial incentive they
would mind doing it.
I actually explained it.. We do not have the people who understand
all those ports.
if there is a port hat gets a fix, one assumes there is a maintainer
who at least understands that port a bit.
I would feel more comfortable if they made the fix.
Having said that I do think tat we do need to pony up some cash at
some stage.. and many others should too
if we want to have something like this. I've said this elsewhere.
Fine. Considering that maintainers already apply patches to the latest
quarterly branch. If there were to be OS version branches, it would mean
that maintainers apart from what they are doing now would additionally
need to apply selected patches to those OS version branches? Considering
there would be, say, 3 latest version branches, and that 30% of the
patches that go to the latest branch would need to also be ported to the
OS version branches, that would roughly mean twice as much work as today?
Grzegorz
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