Re: Release sarge now, or discuss etch issues? (was: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)
Hello
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:43:11AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:32:44PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Frank Küster wrote:
> > > I do not understand why the Nybbles team mixed their good news about
> > > sarge with their foreseeably controversial plans or proposal for etch.
> > > I fear that we will have a huge, long flamewar. And many competent,
> > > active people will start coding implementations of alternatives to the
> > > Nybbles plan, alternatives that will allow us to make releases also of
> > > the SCC/tier-2 arches.
> > >
> > > I think all this discussion about etch should be delayed until sarge is
> > > out. Of course we would need a statement from the Nybbles team that
> > > they do not intend to make decicions, and not to settle facts before a
> > > thorough discussion has taken place - after the release.
> >
> > The fact that the release team now sees the light at the end of the
> > tunnel for the release of sarge means that now is the time we need to
> > begin planning for etch. Allowing unstable development to pick back up
> > after a release with no clear plan for the next release has been shown
> > time and time again to delay the next release by one to two *years*.
> > The rest follows from that.
>
> And would a larger discussion at debconf'05 not have been more appropriate
> than handing done a couple of taken decision disguised as proposal ?
>
> It is not too late for this yet, but there needs to be a real discussion with
> real facts, and not just a list of resolution letting 8/11th of the project in
> the cold.
Please take this kind of discussions on debian-devel as it is possible
for people not attending on debconf be a part of the discussion.
Regards,
// Ola
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
>
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