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Re: Proposal: Debian release numbers



On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:22:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> > I like this idea a lot, and have myself suggested it in the past.  It
> > will not get done, though, because every time anybody has suggested a
> > change to the versioning scheme, the release manager has vetoed it,
> > regardless of any arguments made.
> 
> That's an interestiong assertian, given that we moved from the x.y
> scheme to the x.yrz scheme during the reign of a release manager
> (Christian Schwartz).

You're probably thinking of Christian Hudon, who did the stable
releases at that time.  Christian Schwarz (no t) was the Policy Editor.
Brian White was Release Manager.

Richard Braakman



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