Getting new packages into Ubuntu

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le lundi 10 octobre 2011 à 13:15 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit :
> I understand what you're saying.  It's not a distro I would use.

Ok, fair enough, let's agree that we disagree then. Just one question
then, do you consider a feature (i.e a good thing) that upstreams have
to get "locked" in our 6 months cycle or do you think that's something
we should aim at fixing in some way?

Let's take a simple example, we got a new login manager (lightdm) this
cycle, from reading blogs some users who miss having a graphical tool to
tweak the config of their login screen started hacking on an utility
called "simple-lightdm-manager", that started too late to get in Oneiric
though and the quality might not be archive ready. How do you recommend
we solve the issue that some users might be interested to get that sort
of utility and use them on Oneiric? If upstream is adding features as
time permit and is adding an option to pick the greeter to use in 2
weeks which should Ubuntu users need to wait 6 months and the lts to get
their hands on it?

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Sebastien Bacher