On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Clark, Rob rob@ti.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre@linaro.org wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Ricardo Salveti wrote:
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Wookey wookey@wookware.org wrote:
The fundamental question really is 'are we a distro or not'?
Tom Gall said; "We are." Joey Stanford said; "Linaro is not a Linux distribution." Jeremiah said; "I'm confused."
Is there a way for Linaro to clarify the distro / non-distro position?
There are lot of "distributions" that say "We're not a Linux distro!" but in reality they tie you to their dependency resolution scheme and their build system, (I'm looking at you Yocto.) If Linaro is or isn't a distro, can Linaro then please define, and adhere to, what it is? This would likely help clarify the release cycle and the stable / unstable dichotomy. If you're a distro you likely need a stable release, if you're just "shiny Linux kernel for ARM" then I guess you can just do rolling releases, but even upstream seems to have "long term kernel releases."
Regards,
Jeremiah