bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes: > We can't understand why you would want to upload packages to > a third party site that will never have the full trust of Debian or its > users instead of going through the simple procedure of becoming a > Debian developer. Please reconsider. Bruce, You are missing the fact that Debian only has two distributions - stable and unstable. Paul wants something in-between. There is a need for that. You want him to become a developer, and upload updated packages to stable. But that would be wrong, since the stable distribution (as it stands now) can't accept large changes and a quicker release schedule because we don't have the testing and release mechanisms in place. Putting those in place is difficult, since the bulk of the developers run unstable. So there needs to be a separate effort than the unstable development effort to pull off a "up-to-date stable" distribution. Developers would have to declare whether they are able to support the "up-to-date stable" distribution, the "unstable" distribution, or both. Some developers can support both, many can't. And this has to be separate from our normal "stable", since you have already committed to people (book publishers, etc.) that you won't be changing the version numbers for stable (except for the revision number). It's not really fair to attack Paul in this manner if you are not also willing to change the way Debian operates and organize a third in-between distribution. Cheers, - Jim
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