Re: A "progressive" distribution
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Ed Szynaka wrote:
> > > The problem that I see is that there is too much time between stable
> > > releases. I think that shorter and much more regular time periods
> > > between freezes is necessary. By fixing the number and date of freezes,
> > > with say three or four a year, and letting everyone know long in advance
> > > of the freeze it would allow developers to schedule when all bugs must
> > > be removed by. Also the fact that the time period would be much shorter
> > > would make changes between stable versions less drastic and therefore
> > > easier to handle.
> >
> > How does this account for drastic changes to something like libc that
> > might take weeks or months to shake out?
>
Build daemons could take care of the 90% or so of packages that would just
need a recompile.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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