Re: lightning quick woody+1 release scenarios (was Re: Wishlist for woody+1)
Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:46:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Here are a few scenarios that might be worth thinking about if we want
> > to seriously pursue a very quick successor to woody with limited updates.
>
> Here are some caveats.
Amd a very few replies.
> > Scenarios:
> > 1. Come up with a well-defined criteria for what packages in the release
> > can be updated. Something like:
> > Large, important, often-requested packages that have been well-tested
> > upstream, and have a minimal impact on the rest of the system, and
> > none on the tasks and boot-floppies system.
>
> So no gcc 3.1, no new KDE or Gnome (which I would assume would have a large
> impact on the tasks), no new dpkg.
Unless we decided to remove "and tasks" from the criteria, or strech a
point if kde or gnome could get a list of packages fairly early on,
yeah.
> > 3. Gather a team of 5 to 10 boot-floppies hackers (who are already familiar
> > with it), to maintain boot-floppies as any changes come up.
>
> It seems unduly optimistic to imagine that's possible.
Not really; we have such a team gathered right now for woody release.
> > e. Archive changes will be required for d-i.
> More of them?
Making testing support it, at least.
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