Re: Finding an improved release process.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:44:05AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:25:49PM +0100, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote:
> > Yes, we have more packages now, but we also have more developers to deal with
> > them. And we always have a big pool of people that wish to become DD, so man
> > power is not the problem, in my opinion.
>
> Manpower almost certainly isn't the problem with archive size, and I don't
> think it really ever has been. The problem is, primarily, the increasing
> complexity and size of the dependency tree, and the number and complexity of
> interactions between packages in the archive. Keeping that all straight can
> be very, very tricky -- and it gets increasingly tricky as the archive
> grows.
Granted, the large archive size and the complex package dependency
changes make creating a new stable distribution a difficult process;
however, we seem to be managing well enough at this point. The release
blocker is, at this point, the lack of build daemons for some
architectures.
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