Re: new releases [was Re: Official public code repository]

[Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@...>]

> There's even a certain amount of self-contradiction in the  
> responses.  I've been accused of being unreasonable, asking for a  
> document signed in blood, and asking for the Moon, because five  
> years is too long to expect to rely on a product.  By extension,  
> then, I should not expect to rely on Lua for five years.  (And yes,  
> I have had to answer a client's question "What happens if you get  
> hit by a bus tomorrow and die?" as part of the bid process. That's  
> the difference between being an employee and an independent business  
> owner.)
>
> What I am looking for is a "roadmap" that says official releases  
> will be available, these are the people in place to ensure the  
> servers are up and running, here is a list of bugs to be addressed,  
> here is why stability is not "end-of-lifed."  I am puzzled that such  
> a simple request is met with such responses.

Ask not what Lua can do for you, ask what you can do for Lua.

(this is not intended as a whimsical response, I assure you)

As for the term "end-of-life": it's hard to imagine how this applies  
to software for which full source code is freely available.

> [...] They approve the bids and write the checks.

No bids or checks involved in open source software.  Different  
ecosystem.  Different logic.

The above request is not so simple.  A "request" assumes some party is  
obliged to provide an answer.  The license clearly states otherwise:
	http://www.lua.org/license.html
See also:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Business_models
 and	http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/YGWYPF

-jcw