long term support release

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 19:06 +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> * Jesse Keating [25/01/2008 18:53] :
> >
> > The ability to contribute without having to get another account, learn
> > another scm, read other bugmail, etc...
> 
> These are conveniences, not hard requirements.
Have you ever tried to implement a buildsystem?

In practice, besides finding HW and bandwidth, the items above are the
real issues any project is being confronted with.

For contributors, using a unified infrastructure to some extend is
convenience. A lack of convenience imposing barriers and burdens on
users, which cause them to stay away from them.

Also, both topic had been major advertising arguments when launching
Fedora. Fedora.us and other 3rd party repos could easily have lived
without a unified infrastructure.

Ralf