Re: Finding an improved release process.
* Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl) [041129 00:45]:
> If there's no working buildd for the m68k architecture, or the
> installer isn't ready for all m68k systems, it holds up the
> release even though only 20 people use it. Which is part of the
> problem - with so few users, who's going to fix that ?
>
> OTOH, when sarge is finally released it will be without AMD64
> because that architecture couldn't be added in time- which was
> before September 2004.
>
> I'm strongly in favor of releasing only for the 2 or 3 most
> popular architectures and whatever other arches happen to
> be ready. If one isn't ready to be released, release without it.
> That arch can always be synced at a point release, if the users
> and developers of that architecture care enough.
Trust me - it is not that any of those architectures blocks our release
process. We don't have _any_ testing-security autobuilder, including
none on i386.
Cheers,
Andi
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