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Debian desktop market focused release

On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: 
Benefits for Debian:

  * Attract users who think that testing is only a development
    branch, and want newer software than what one finds in stable.
    Those users are likely to be rather advanced users (free
    software developers and contributors), thus interesting to work
    with (able to submit good-quality bug reports, etc). Some of
    them could also become Debian contributors. And even if they
    don't, more users of testing/rolling means more testers of the
    next stable release [remember how the bug reporting rate of
    Ubuntu is higher than Debian's -- some areas of Debian could use
    more testers].

  * Give back to the free software world by providing a platform
    where new upstream releases would quickly be available to users.
    Since users would be able to test new upstream releases earlier,
    they would be able to provide feedback to upstream devs earlier,
    contributing to a shorter feedback loop. Debian is often
    identified by upstream developers as the platform with releases
    from two years ago. I would love to see Debian in a position to
    contribute more to improviing the quality of the Free Software
    world.
Hi all,

First, thank you for this message which summarizes huge mail thread. I didn't personally read most of the mails, as these are hundreds. So, please excuse me if I'm repeating something that was already said.

What about keeping the same schema, which is working well (unstable==>testing==>stable), and just adding a new kind of parallel release path (unstable==>testing==>desktop) which is a kind of short cycle release targeting the desktop/laptop market.

Today, testing is quite good quality, but sometimes it get stuck and cause headaches for a few days rendering PC non usable. So filtering this kind of things should be easy especially for stable lesser quality release.

I like Debian's logo quality's first and think we should keep this even when going to the desktop market. So maybe we need to focus on this way based on short cycle releases (in addition to the regular release cycle).

One way is to have a second release team for this purpose. An maybe the release team could monitor these desktop release in order to decide, the best time, to base stable on a giver desktop version 

unstable==>testing==>desktop
                      ||==>frozen==>stable

Just my two cents,

Cheers,

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