> I think one of the problems is manpower.I think we all
> agree that SRU releases are good. Backporting bugs and such.
> The problem is manpower. 
> 
> Maintainers are however free to update their distros with
> patches - instead of official SRU that would require
> creating new tarballs and a whole hell of update related
> issues.
> 
> Why doesn't someone ( maybe you :p) create a tarball of
> all the patches to be applied. Then email it to the
> different maintainers?

First, I sent the message to the wrong list. Aargh! :(

Second, the packagers are always the ones who release new packages. All we need is a decision, from Tim or as a team, that certain bug fixes are deemed sufficient to constitute a point release. After such a decision packagers will need to backport any related patches if they so desire. The problem is not manpower, just decisions. :)

Darrell