Re: Bits from the RM
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:04:45PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > * Regular CD releases of testing, as well as stable
> I gotta say, this makes me nervous. I'm concerned that testing will
> be what people are in some sense "expected to use", despite it being
> "officially not supported". The more testing begins to look like a
> "real release", the more it will *become* the "real release".
I'm not too worried about it; both because I think Debian users are
generally sensible to be able to understand the tradeoffs amongst stable,
testing and unstable, and to make a sensible choice based on that [0],
and because the only reason testing will look more like a "real release"
is because it's *being* better supported.
At the moment, for example, running testing is a very risky proposition
because no one's handling security updates for it.
> But this is not inevitable. I hope there is something you can say
> that will ease my fear, because on its own merits having CD releases
> of testing would be handy.
If running testing's not in someone's best interests, then that's really
a simple matter of making sure they understand why. If it is, then we
want to make it easier for them to do so.
Of course, I'm hopeful the best way of easing your fears is to do it, and
have it all turn out to work perfectly ;)
Cheers,
aj
[0] Which is mostly due to the tradeoffs for testing from the user's POV
were designed to be reasonably straightforward
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