Re: DPLs : what do you think about ...
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 04:04:03PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 12:42:41PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > "Release early, release often" -- the Catherderal and the Bazaar. What
> > you're proposing breaks a central, key tenet of open source development, and
> > would, IMHO, kill debian.
>
> Forking unstable doesn't count as releasing. And if you want to go this
> route, do you see linux-kernel starting on 2.3 now that 2.1 is in freeze?
Makes sense to me. Besides, we are used to kernel patches being
non-centralised; Debian packages ARE centralised, and as Joey has pointed out
this is a big advantage.
Hamish
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