doughnuts on a fish hook

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Steve Bergman wrote:

>No, you're right.  I shouldn't have said that.  I plead a bad hair day
>and apologize. ;-)
>
>Perhaps RHLP or a related project could pick up for a second year of
>errata.  I suppose testing is harder than the actual
>back-porting/patching.  As has been said, it really is going to take a

Backporting+patching+testing is about a 1 QA+ 1 engineer WEEK per
platform per release. Ask the security people who do Debian about how
long they would like to support a release before killing it (I think the
poll was 2 weeks but they realized it had to be longer.)


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