Re: Debian doesn't have to be slower than time.
I hesitate to respond to this because I haven't yet
done anything for Debian ... but it seems to me that
part of what's missing from the process is a sense
of what's important to the user community.
Personally, I'm looking forward to woody because
it will have the 2.4 kernel, which is required for
USB support. I can appreciate, though, that woody
can't be released while there are problems with
important packages like apache.
But I think that there should be a greater sense
of what's important and what isn't. It's worth
holding woody until critical apache problems are
fixed, or gcc, or emacs, or, libraries that are used
by hundreds of programs. But it's not worth holding
it until some text editor that's used by 3% or less
of the community is fixed, or a game. Somewhere
a line must be drawn, between stuff that is
important enough to wait for, and stuff that is
not. The statement that Debian is too slow to
make important new releases, is equivalent to
saying that that line is currently in the
wrong place.
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