On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 19:28 +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
5. LONG TERM GOALS
Most Arch stuff starts out as external projects than then merge with the main distro. If our work turns out to be useful, and I hope it will be, I would like us to become an official Arch Team. We could then having something like Debian does, with two mailing lists, one for security discussion and a read only list where announcements are posted. The details of this remain to be determined as this initiative is only just starting out.
I'd still like to know how this replaces/conflicts with Arch policy for 'as upstream as possible'. I'm aware that just starting out the answer may just be "we don't know yet", but for me one of the benefits of Arch is that all packages are close to upstream (and thus its easy to discuss bugs with upstream, which may not be the case with 5-10 security-patches from git/svn).