Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On 17 May 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:

> Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> > Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > I'd like to point out that expecting freeze to be shorter than 10
> > > weeks is lunacy.  We have 5 architectures now.... Consider that
> > > archive changes at any point in freeze imply changes in boot floppies
> > > (well, for anything in base) and in the CD system.
> 
> > From freeze to release, one month.  We won't freeze at all until we
> > have a plan that allows this.  The plan must have room for delays,
> > and the ripple effects caused by changes.
> 
> Huh?  Why do you say this?  As long as I've been with Debian, I've
> never seen anything shorter than a 2 month freeze. [...]

IMHO, just because we have made the mistake of freezing too early in the
past does not mean we have to repeat it over and over again.

Thanks.

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