Re: Future releases of Debian
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:51:44PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:26:24AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > And as I stated above, I think at least half the problem is determining what
> > needs to be done. Have you any suggestions?
>
> If I were release manager, I'd do the following:
> - start to collect a list of thing that need to be done for Debian 3.1
> or that were "nice to have" (e.g. a port to amd64 would be nice to
> have, but shouldn't delay the beginning of the freeze much) together
> with estimated dates when something on this list will be finished
> - post a plan on how the freeze will work; my old idea was [1] (today
> I'd suggest a few details different)
I'm not convinced that establishing release goals will and deadlines speed
the release process. For example, a prominent release goal for sarge will
be debian-installer, since we cannot release without it. Will telling the
d-i developers "you must be finished by <arbitrary date>" bring it to
completion faster?
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- mdz
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