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We're within weeks of cut-off for Ubuntu's next LTS, Red Hat 10, etc. Fail to deliver their code upstream in the next few weeks and they'd be out of luck for g
by Twirrim 3y ago
We're within weeks of cut-off for Ubuntu's next LTS, Red Hat 10, etc. Fail to deliver their code upstream in the next few weeks and they'd be out of luck for getting it in to an enterprise distribution for the next 3-4ish years.
There's nothing arbitrary about the deadlines, the clock was absolutely ticking.
- jethro_tell 3y agoYou're not wrong, I'm mostly joking here because its a little funny to think about the bureaucracy of spycraft and malice. Not James bond stuff, no beautiful high value targets getting seduced, its just some guy with ADD that spent about 15 days too many bike shedding and botched a critical deadline.