Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40, Luk Claes<luk@debian.org> wrote:
>> Why doing a 12 months release "to get into the new schedule" instead of
>> just adopting a 24 months schedule based on the lenny release? [1]
>
> The main reason is that the Release Team hopes to now have the momentum to
> make a time based freeze work. If we would delay, it will very probably mean
> that many developers 'forget' about what the time based freeze is about.
How about using this opportunity to help fulfill the Shuttleworth
dream of freezing both Ubuntu LTS and Debian at the same time? He self
mentioned he's willing to reach a 'compromise' if Debian or another
major distro is willing to co-operate, that is if it's willing to
freeze the same upstream versions of key components (Linux, X, GNU
toolkit, ...).
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