Re: My views on release management

[John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>]

Here are Ian Murdoch's statements from around the 0.95 or 
0.96 release. ( I lost the url reference, I can track  it down,
though )

At least it seems that slow releases are not something new.

   "Many people have criticized us for not releasing something every
few months," says Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian Project, "but
the end result is a system that is far more robust and stable than
the competition.  This is due to the fact that we are releasing
a system that has been in extensive production use for almost a
year.  Not many people about to release a new system can say that."
...
 "Each package is an independent and modular unit, in that it is not
associated with any particular release of the complete system or
distribution scheme"

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John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ     http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre