On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
On 02/20/2010 03:12 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
I'm Jeff Mitchell, one of the Amarok authors. Nice to meet all of you. Likewise :) Canonical however is a for-profit company. Other distributions shipping this plugin means that you're helping Canonical make their
I think this also applies to creating and LTS version. These people are
going to need to be paid or it will not happen. Right now in our
initative, we are seriously looking at openSUSE because we can us the
resources Novell provides and get assistance. But to really do this even
for just the similar products SLES has but using the openSUSE ones creates
a need for funding. As the number of packages that need love and
attention are increated. It really would take a paid team to provide an
LTS. The main reason for openSUSE LTS is it has become a community driven
distribution. Any community memember is able to contribute. For Kernel
and other specail packages only a few people outside Novel would I trust
to make thes type of changes. It takes more expertise and these people
sould really need support to do the backports and various things needed.
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Boyd Gerber