Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/04/11 at 12:05 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > And at the same time, having a non-frozen rolling release available > > during freeze time could easily distract people from working on > > testing/frozen at all, because a shiny rolling release that they and > > some users can use is still available. I am unhappy during the current > > choke point of testing being frozen, but that choke point does serve as > > an incentive for the whole project to work in the same direction: toward > > actually getting a good stable release out. > > That's not true. It serves as an incentive for a large number of DDs to > just do something else until the freeze is over and they can start > working on their packages again. (easy to show by looking at the number > of distinct uploaders over time, for example). I apologise for using the word "whole" and spawning an apparently useless sub-thread (though with some nice data I guess). Obviously, "the whole project" is never aligned at working on any one goal; however a freeze is the point in time at which more of the project is involved in getting the release out than other times. > > To most users of testing, a 5 month period when it > > doesn't update as much, but is also more constantly usable is mostly > > a draw; that period is when testing has the most new users. > > Interesting. Where does that information come from? Being subscribed and reading every message of debian-user for decades, as well as at least seeing the titles of all installation reports ever reported, as well as I think some popcon numbers. In other words: Gut feeling of an overfed neural network. -- see shy jo
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