Re: Woody Progress
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 07:41:54PM +0100, Charl P. Botha wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 01:37:01PM +0000, Richard Taylor wrote:
> > code freeze will start. I mean, getting a new realease out, with KDE 2
> > packaged and ready to go, plus XF86 4, would do a lot to restore the Debian
> > Project in the eyes of joe-average linux-user.
>
> <flame-suit-on>
> I presume this has been discussed to death on this list before, but what's
> wrong with a shorter development cycle? Why not freeze woody now or in a
> month's time (when there _might_ be a "stable" 2.4.0 kernel)? IMHO, it's
> made huge leaps and bounds in actual development from potato, and the sooner
> it's frozen, the sooner the new unstable can start, but at least there'll be
> a new debian stable by mid 2001 (or perhaps even earlier).
>
These were exactly the kind of words I was not eloquent enough to find. Huge
technological leaps and bounds. Not much that you can _see_ outside of KDE
but under the bonnet it's like the whole darned thing has changed.
Having only been a Debian user since, oh, just a whisker before the offical
release of 2.0, I cannot, of course speak authoritatively, but it seems to
have progressed much faster than the releases I've seen.
Richard Taylor
> My 2c,
> Charl
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