On Du, 01 mai 11, 08:38:55, Mike Hommey wrote: > > So while I do agree with the rest of your message, I do see a need to > make testing more attractive so that we have a solid user base actually > testing what we are going to release, and stop saying to people that > they shouldn't be using testing (and I've seen that said *a lot*). Just make 'rolling' a symlink to 'testing' and get on with your... hacking :) Add to this a press announcement (I can draft one if you want) along the lines: - 'testing' doesn't deserve it's name and will be called 'rolling' instead - users familiar with Debian are encouraged to use it, but should subscribe to debian-news (and/or d-d-a?) to watch for major transitions that might affect stability This would give you have more than 1 year time to see if this attracts more users. When the freeze approaches you can restart the flame war^W^Wdiscussion about 'frozen', but in the meantime there is enough time to create the PPA infrastructure, which will most probably solve the perceived problem[1] that rolling/testing would be frozen too long, because, instead of creating a completely new suite you can tell users "just enable the foo-rolling PPA to have the latest foo on rolling". I'm sure -publicity will be happy to include such snippets in -news if you let them know ;) [1] In my almost 6 years of lurking on debian-user I haven't seen too many complaints about the freeze[2], but rather users enabling the frozen testing to prepare for the next release. [2] maybe it helps that I missed the sarge freeze ;) If you're curious, the usual advise on d-u to "what should I run" is: - beginning of the release cycle: stable, unless you know what you're doing (but then you wouldn't be asking) - after the major transitions (like KDE4 for squeeze): stable if you're new to Debian/Linux + backports, testing for newer stuff - freeze: testing, unless it's a production machine, but have in mind that security support will end in less than 1.5 years Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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