Hiya all,
First of all let me introduce myself, my name is Scott Minns, i'm a
debian
user, not a developer. That most likely makes you question why i'm
using
thins mailing list at all, let alone having the gall to propose
altering a well
established testing and release system.
Here is my proposal and I would like to hear your thoughts on it, In
addition
to the present releases- stable, testing and unstable. We add a release
called
current.
For my general servers stable is too old and lacks features and
software that I
need, I hate using back ports or software from other releases, it seems
to
always eventually cause problems. Yet for my web servers stable is
perfect, its rock solid :) However I would not trust testing or
unstable on a
production server. My suggestion would be this
Stable - released when the software is rock sold and very mature
Current - This is software that has been in testing for six months and
experienced
no critical bugs, floors or dependency problems. A new version is
released
every six months - supported by a security team. After
1 year the current version becomes
stable.
Testing - Software in the queue to enter current – otherwise as it is
at
present
Unstable - new software, no testing for those that like to live
dangerously
- as it is at present
My reason for suggesting this change is that I love using debian, but
I’m
currently having to evaluate other distros and OS's such as slack and
FreeBSD
to get the features, stability and security that we need.
I will be interested to hear you feedback and thought on the matter.
Best regards
Scott