On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:20:17PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > I would like to ask you interested in our next release to stop and > look at 'testing' for a while. I believe that now, during the start of > a development cycle and during debcamp/debconf we've a interesting > opportunity to review pros and cons of our current approach. > > We believe that 'testing' means that things shouldn't break as badly > as in unstable or experimental. That's important understand the > automatic update concept of unstable and the experimental > non-automatic nature. In other words use unstable means that upgrade > is dangerous, use unstable and experimental means that you pick how > much more of the danger you want from there (experimental). > > Let me outline the 'testing' pros and cons from my point of view: > > pros > ----- > > * testing is under control of release team, it's supposed to be harder > to a random developer break our next release > > * testing is our 'daily updated' release snapshot > > > cons > ----- > > * testing metric is too simple, packages are allowed to enter testing > only after a certain period of time has passed no matter if much > people tested it before that and just when they don't have > release-critical bugs filed against them. > > * developers and most active contributors are pretty much using only > stable or unstable and not testing. > > > I've two different proposals to address the cons trying to avoid as > much as possible create new cons, they are: > > 1) The 'remove experimental' proposal > experimental is not a 'full' branch like stable, testing or unstable. It only has a handfull of package built for it (at least that is what I have seen from reading debian-devel-changes) Also, there is no transition from experimental to unstable. checkout my diagram at http://mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/ (there is an older,not updated dia source in spanish if that is helpful) -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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