As an ex-Novell/SUSE employee this makes sense to me.
Upstream is supposed to keep marching onwards.
Backporting is _so_ much work. And it's unfortunately not sexy work either, so it's always going to be hard attracting unpaid contributors for it.
If you need stability and long term support as a customer, you have companies like RedHat or SUSE whose entire point is providing 10+ years maintenance on these components.
Backporting is _so_ much work. And it's unfortunately not sexy work either, so it's always going to be hard attracting unpaid contributors for it.
If you need stability and long term support as a customer, you have companies like RedHat or SUSE whose entire point is providing 10+ years maintenance on these components.