RE: the problems with Debian

[David Bristel <targon@targonia.com>]

I wasn't refering to any ONE part of Debian, but for full releases.  Most have
been saying we need to have a faster release cycle, but nothing seems to have
changed to promote this.  

							Dave Bristel


On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Seth Cohn wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:27:38 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Seth Cohn <seth@oregonmed.net>
> To: David Bristel <targon@targonia.com>
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: the problems with Debian
> 
> Since I was directly cc:, I'll give a quick reply:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, David Bristel wrote:
> 
> > The first is that it takes far too long to RELEASE anything.
> 
> > The second is that Debian by it's design, has grown too large for a
> > single, "We throw everything into the pot, and wait for everything to
> > be cooked properly before anything can be done"
> 
> > My solution consists of doing releases of each "Category" of package.
> 
> Package pools.  It's being worked on already.  There is a mailing list,
> and I think it's pretty much agreed to be the future of Debian by most
> people. The exact implementation is still being worked on... the
> experimental dist is only one piece of it.
> 
> Seth
> 
> 
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