On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 01:46:14AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
So long as people are willing to maintain it, why restrict
peoples' ability to
work on something, especially while users are stuck on that version, or forced
to move elsewhere if they cannot get a fix and cannot upgrade?
A nummber of reasons:
Resources:
* storage space on fast storage instead of archives
* mirror space
* signing cycles
* build cycles
* compose cycles
False sense of security: Something might be updated because the maintainer wants
to keep it up to date there, but no one else does so 30 other things are
inscure/broken, making users thing things are up to date when they are
not.
You would have to have some way to allow feedback/bug reports only to
those people who are wanting to keep it alive, while not bothering
people who don't wish to.
kevin