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Re: Debian squeeze theme: dead in the water?



On mar., 2010-10-12 at 13:49 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Imho it's not a good idea to have the theme ready too soon, especially
> > when we don't know when the release will be, and the theme might “wear
> > out”.
> 
> I thought about re-uploading the package every few months, changing
> the theme, but that would be kinda silly.
> 
> What about if the theme for testing/wheezy changed randomly on reboot
> between candidates for the final wheezy theme?
> 
> Or if the CUT proposals go ahead, each snapshot could contain a new
> theme and before wheezy the final theme would be chosen.

Wow, that would be a lot of themes/artwork. Not sure it could be done
that often.
> 
> > But we could proceed as Julien proposed, like, if we know the scheduled
> > freeze date one year in advance, we could set a deadline like a month
> > before. Though that means knowing the freeze one year in advance, which
> > might not be that easy.
> 
> I think one month is too short of a time, 6 months might be more appropriate.

6 months? I'm puzzled, what it is in a theme which would make it require
6 months to be chosen, uploaded to unstable and migrate to testing?

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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