Re: Woody Progress
* Richard Taylor (soluzar75@lineone.net) [001203 20:49]:
> > The problem with this line of thinking, i think, is that debian isn't
> > aimed toward 'joe-average linux-user' .. It's aimed really towards the
> > debian developers, and others like them. Debian isn't trying to "restore"
> > themselves, in anyone's eyes. they are going forward as they feel correct.
> >
> Ok, if Debian is not aimed at Joe, then why do we bother having a mailing list
> where we discuss publicity for the system. I mean, isn't what you are saying,
> that we should just stick with the users that we have got? If you are, then
> I, for one, cannot agree with you.
If Debian is just made for developers then it is a dead end in the first
place. We would not need a stable release, remember? We aim to be a great
Distribution and one of our main concerns are the users. So of cause we want
many happy users. In fact we ultimatly exist to do them good and please them.
> > Nah, potato just stabilized. just BARELY. We don't need to rush out with
> > this. I wouldn't even expect seeing the release until at least the end of
> > 2001. and that doesn't even seem likely to me.
If it would be just for developers and the like, why care? :-)
> One out, give the next one a month or two, then freeze?
> I mean a code freeze is _not_ a release, it doesn't mean we stop testing, and
> it doesn't mean we stop bugfixes. I admit, I could be very wrong here, but
> another year, before Debian Woody comes out, seems a long time. Potato is
> a fine release. A FINE release. Woody just has some stuff in it that is far
> too nice to make users wait a year for. :-)
right.
> OTOH, I wouldn't call Woody oh-so terribly unstable - not from my personal
> experience of it, which has been minimal, but you hear developers reccomending
> it on the debian-user list, if it is needed to solve a specific problem, so
> my reasoning is that it must be there-or-there-about. When I wrote my first
> message, I didn't expect to hear `Next week, mate!, but I didn't expect to
> hear a full year, either. Shame, really. Of course, I'll still keep on using
> Debian, and reccomending it to all my friends.
Do not let yourself be discouraged by this kind of 'it has allways been that
way'-mails. There is a certain lazyness in adopting new points of views and
idears. Think of it like of the immovable object and the infinit force...
> In closing, I'd like to ask another (related) question. Is there some
> particular piece of software that you think Woody is waiting for that will
> be here in a years time? GCC 3.0 perhaps?
that and a stable 2.4.x Kernel... LOL!
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