On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:58:33AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > What about freezing woody one week after releasing potato > > and releasing it after no more than one month of freeze ??? Heh. Note that powerpc and sparc autobuilders have deliberately been ignoring woody (and I think arm autobuilding doesn't entirely exist yet, so they're out of date too); note that there are large numbers of bugs being ignored pending woody, and large numbers of new packages that haven't been tested for woody yet. Compare the uninstallables counts: potato woody alpha 30 338 arm 85 2783 hurd-i386 586 i386 3 97 m68k 40 331 sparc 21 409 sparc64 183 powerpc 28 430 You really think we'll get all this fixed and spotless in a month? It is to laugh. Personally, I think Debian's outgrown the "develop / debug / test / release" model at this point. There are too many arches to try to keep in sync, too many packages to ensure are bugfree, too many independent goals to work on, too many configurations to support if we try to do it all in series: as soon as we've got B settled down and try to move onto C, A breaks. We need, IMHO, more parallelisation, not just more pressure to get things done faster and better and what not. I'd strongly encourage people to hold their thoughts on how we should handle releases until we've actually finished this one, ie, when we can actually take some of the ideas everyone has into account. Write your messages and all, but lets postpone them for a month and actually do something rather than just talk about it this time. > Another idea might be ajt's "testing" distribution. From what I've heard, > that has a lot of promise for alleviating some of the problems; I'm interested > to see what happens when it's integrated into the archives (I've heard this > will happen after the woody release?) ^^^^^ current or potato. ie, it's ready and waiting to be in place *for* woody. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and working code.'' -- Dave Clark
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