Re: Drop testing
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:33:24PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Gergely Nagy <algernon@bonehunter.rulez.org> writes:
>
> >> It may sound a bit radical, but core points have been mentioned in the
> >> thread already. I suggest to do it in a more radical way:
> >>
> >> - unstable lockdown in the freeze
> >> - drop Testing and concentrate on work instead of wasting time on
> >> synching stuff. This eliminates the need for testing-security. See
> >> the last part of the paper for details.
> >
> > Doing this would result in many users who currently run testing fall
> > back to stable + backports or switch to another distro (ubuntu being a
> > likely candidate), which in turn, would result in less bugreports and a
> > less stable distribution.
>
> Very few bug reports from testing users are of any value at all. They
> usually either report some transient dependency problem that the
> maintainer can't fix anyway, or report something that has already been
> fixed in the unstable package.
The true solution is a multi-release BTS, not dropping testing. And
being maintainer/uploader of quite a good number of packages, I can say
those cases of testing-only problems is a minority. We have also
reports which are (yet now) stable-only, for what I can see. A proper
BTS implementation for that could help in tracking things appropriately.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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