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Re: My views on release management



Hi,

I agree with the rest of the text.

On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 10:09:33AM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
>   * Have a pre-freeze of one or two weeks, during which new packages
> can be held until after the freeze so that they can be installed in
> the next "unstable".

I'd suggest something like this:

From: <release-manager@debian.org>
To: debian-devel, debian-devel-announce
Date: 15.05.1999.

Maintainers!

You can start uploading your packages with Distribution: frozen unstable.

EOF

[this is the time where you start getting picky about the packages,
and consult the goal-managers about uploads to frozen]

From: <release-manager@debian.org>
To: debian-devel, debian-devel-announce, debian-announce
Date: 15.06.1999.

People!

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 'potato' has been frozen.

EOF

[this is the time where you get nasty to those who upload to frozen :)]

From: <release-manager@debian.org>
To: debian-devel, debian-devel-announce, debian-announce, scoop@freshmeat :)
Date: 15.07.1999.

Everybody!

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 'potato' has been released.

EOF

In the first time period, you don't have to actually have dists/frozen
directory full; it can be a symlink farm.

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