Don,
Volatile is for software which is known to be time critical, like virus and spam catching rules.
Almost all Debian initiatives start as unofficial measures to demonstrate their efficacy. Eventually if they work and there is sufficient demand for them, they become official.
Okay.
It currently takes us a somewhere on the order of 100 person-years to release every single version of Debian.
Woww. Just waving your hands and
saing that "not much additional work should be necessary" isn't good enough.
Right. Are there any real movements to synchronise Debian's cycle with LSB's one slightly?
Peter