Re: 2.4.0!

[Mike Bilow <mikebw@colossus.bilow.com>]

I disagree with this.  I think, as I said emphatically and repeatedly,
that the solution is more frequent full releases and shorter release
cycles.  I would ideally like to see Woody release about six months after
Potato.  I think the Potato release should be followed by about three
months of aggressive integration of new packages into Woody and then about
three more months of freeze and testing leading to release of Woody.

This would guarantee that nothing would be more than three months behind
when the release is declared stable, and also would make it more likely
that packages could be pulled individually from unstable and used on
stable (by users who need to do that) because there would be much less
distance between stable and unstable.  Almost no Potato packages work on
Slink now, since there are such wide variations in libc6 requirements and
all sorts of other pervasive things.

I regard it as unwise to upgrade major components which touch everything
(such as libc6, xfree86, or gnome) separately without extensive testing.

-- Mike


On 2000-05-25 at 22:06 -0700, Erik wrote:

> I would have to agree with this.  We are way too late in a freeze to be
> adding packages, but i would like to see modifications to the policy(is
> that where its handled?) that states that only security updates and 
> fairly major bug fixes go into a stable release.  Possible a month or two
> after potato is released release a new version, with apache and gnome 1.2,
> possible with KDE v2 if we get that worked out(please dont start a thread 
> based on if we can do this or not, again :)  Probably not XF4.0 or the 2.4
> kernel, as they will probably need more time.  But enough ranting, because
> we need to spend our time getting the release ready rather than discussing
> how to release :)