Re: Mentioning proposed-updates on the main website

[Kobayashi Noritada <nori1@dolphin.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp>]

Hi,

From: Luk Claes
Subject: Re: Mentioning proposed-updates on the main website
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:03:18 +0200

> > From: Josip Rodin
> > Subject: Re: Mentioning proposed-updates on the main website
> > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:57:13 +0200
> > 
> >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:13:19PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> >>> As you may (or may not) know proposed-updates is used as a basis for the 
> >>> next point release. As such it would be good that people would use it 
> >>> more so we find most bugs *before* a point release. To make this happen 
> >>> I want to mention proposed-updates more visibly on the main website. 
> >>> Does anyone have good ideas how and where on the website I should 
> >>> mention proposed-updates (and oldstable-proposed-updates and maybe the 
> >>> process involved)?
> >> /releases/stable/errata actually includes some information about
> >> that, but I'm not sure where else. Maybe we need a new page called
> >> /releases/proposed-updates that explains the concept better, and
> >> then link that one from other places?
> > 
> > FYI http://www.debian.org/security/faq#proposed-updates currently
> > explains that.  Also,
> 
> It only explains it very briefly and only to illustrate the connection 
> with the security archive...

Yes, I agree.

> > http://ftp-master.debian.org/proposed-updates.html shows the status.
> > 
> > I worry about the status of the proposed updates.  Those packages are
> > not always released; only packages accepted by the Stable Release
> > Manager are released and other packages will be dropped.  So, IMHO
> > those packages should not be recommended, unlike security updates.
> > Enough explanation will be required.
> 
> Wrong. The status shows what's in the p-u-new queue. All that is 
> accepted is in proposed-updates and gets released in the next point 
> release...

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood.  I didn't know about the NEW queue of the
proposed-updates.  Thank you for explanation.

Now that what I worried has gone, I'm +1 on your idea.

Regards,

-nori