Re: Debian's problems
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 08:13:45PM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> Neglecting to open up unstable for development after a freeze will
> *not* speed up release cycles. Think about it. A very large group of
> debian's developers are highly specialized. If you take away their
> work, many of them would sit idle until unstable *did* finally get
> rolling.
>
> It's not like we can dictate where people will spend their time in
> debian. If you take away someone's freedom, he will most likely just
> sit on his hands.
>
> So if Joe developer usually takes 3 months to get a working, finished
> package of his extremely complex package 'foo' perfected, delaying
> unstable's appearance for 2 months will just change joe's time to 3+2
> = 5 months.
>
> This spells a several month longer release cycle.
No exactly. [Like you say, we can't dictate where people will spend
their time. So it would still only take three months for Joe to finish
his 'foo' package -- but if he finishes it while unstable is closed he
might have to wait a bit before he uploads it.]
But maybe it would be better to accept unstable package uploads from
developers only after the developer has no more important bugs on packages
in frozen...
--
Raul
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