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Re: 1. RFD: Reorganization of the Debian Project

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Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@megabaud.fi> writes:

> The "scheduled release = don't procrastinate" argument is of primary
> importance from the "business" point of view, the one from which CD
> makers and large network/corporation look at Debian.
>
> The "fix all the security holes" argument is of primary importance
> from the developer's point of view.

Actually, releasing a Linux product without the latest major version
of any highly-visible software component (the biggest two are XFree86
and the Linux kernel) would be a disastrous business decision.
Security issues would only reinforce that tendency.

> If Debian were a corporation, or an organization headed by a "Board
> of directors", a "Management Comitee", the first argument would have
> won, but Debian is an amalgam[2], a collection of developers and the
> security argument took the precedence.

I respectfully disagree.  Most people, especially long-time Linux
developers who would presumably be on such a board, involved in the
discussion leaned towards using XFree86 3.2.

I was literally shocked that Brian chose the course of action he did.

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