counterproposal: was Re: Proposal to help Debian release on time
I'll tell you what you can do for Debian that'd be much more useful than
these suggestions: tell your POP host to quit sending messages like:
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Rob wrote:
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>Hi,
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>Proposal to help Debian release on time.
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>Add a 4th version of a package called fallback. This package version should
>not have any RC bugs. So now you have stable, fallback, testing and unstable
>package versions in the pool.
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>The advantage of this is that that the release manager can choose the
>fallback version if the testing version has RC bugs. Currently he can only
>request priority bug fixs.
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>The second advantage is that priority bug fixs can be spead out more evenly
>over the whole year, not just when a release is due. (see rule 3 below)
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>Some rules:
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>Fallback would start off beening a link to the same package version as stable.
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>When the version in testing has no RC bugs for say 6 weeks it moves to fallback.
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>If the fallback version gets a RC bug, a bug fix should be a priority. It
>becomes the highest priority if the package is in base or important.
>Debian QA should monitor these fixs.
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>Cheers Rob.
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One of the tests to determine personality in our book was so incredibly
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Answer each of the following items "true" or "false"
1. I salivate at the sight of mittens.
2. If I go into the street, I'm apt to be bitten by a horse.
3. Some people never look at me.
4. Spinach makes me feel alone.
5. My sex life is A-okay.
6. When I look down from a high spot, I want to spit.
7. I like to kill mosquitoes.
8. Cousins are not to be trusted.
9. It makes me embarrassed to fall down.
10. I get nauseous from too much roller skating.
11. I think most people would cry to gain a point.
12. I cannot read or write.
13. I am bored by thoughts of death.
14. I become homicidal when people try to reason with me.
15. I would enjoy the work of a chicken flicker.
16. I am never startled by a fish.
17. My mother's uncle was a good man.
18. I don't like it when somebody is rotten.
19. People who break the law are wise guys.
20. I have never gone to pieces over the weekend.
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