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Re: time based freezes



On 04/04/2011 01:15 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:

> most of the work is done by our upstreams, and by simply telling
> them "we'll freeze PICK_YOUR_MONTH every even/odd year" will (in the long
> term) improve quality of Debian *a lot* more than choosing a random^Wperfect
> (and different) date for every release cycle (and not announcing it to
> upstream authors *at all*), IMHO

Ack! We need to be able to give our upstreams a fixed release date so
they can plan ahead to have their release ready in time. If they don't
manage to do so it is not our fault anymore at least.

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