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Re: Debian doesn't have to be slower than time.



On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:00:05PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> "Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca> writes:
> 
> > No.  The difference is that you pick a *short* fixed amount of time
> > before the freeze.  I'd suggest 2 months.
> > 
> > That forces you to drastically limit the changes to basic things, like
> > say, boot floppies.  A smaller change has a higher chance of
> > stabilizing in a reasonable amount of time (say another 2 months).
> > Voila: 3 releases/year.
> 
> Sometimes we do want to change major things.  In this version of
> reality, how would we ever do that?

Slowly, a bit at a time.
-S 

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