From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id A7FFEE00B62; Thu, 8 May 2014 15:18:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=RDNS_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record * 1.3 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS X-Greylist: delayed 1525 seconds by postgrey-1.32 at yocto-www; Thu, 08 May 2014 15:18:57 PDT Received: from roasted.cubic.org (unknown [193.108.181.130]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC501E00B47 for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 15:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dslb-178-011-250-159.pools.arcor-ip.net ([178.11.250.159]:57606 helo=[192.168.10.100]) by roasted.cubic.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WiWFm-00081a-UI for yocto@yoctoproject.org; Thu, 08 May 2014 14:53:31 -0700 Message-ID: <536BFCD2.1010001@cubic.org> Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 23:53:22 +0200 From: Michael Stickel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130404 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <6710F7A1-6564-49CC-AE7C-1544633E5D84@keylevel.com> <536BE50C.3000006@windriver.com> <4A753611-F3BA-41DE-9A3B-C95C26065A4A@keylevel.com> In-Reply-To: <4A753611-F3BA-41DE-9A3B-C95C26065A4A@keylevel.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Subject: Re: Does Yocto need some "LTS" releases? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 22:18:59 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08.05.2014 23:00, Chris Tapp wrote: > However, I still need to work at convincing people that it's not always as simple as updating one package as the update can have knock-on effects else where - which is why a "simple" update can end up being very time consuming and/or costly to implement. "Mystical man month" You need more that a hacker in a garage to build a system of software infrastructure. Best regards Michael