Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy
On 30/04/11 at 14:36 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Raphael Hertzog (hertzog@debian.org) [110430 14:28]:
> > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > * Raphael Hertzog (hertzog@debian.org) [110430 09:46]:
> > > > > Who is going to install a "rolling" release instead of "testing"?
> > > >
> > > > If we change our documentation to say that rolling can be used by anyone
> > > > who likes a constantly evolving distribution (and can live with the
> > > > occasionnal hiccup) and that we will do our best to support it, then the
> > > > public of testing/rolling will be larger.
> > >
> > > Do you have numbers for that, or is that just a PR claim from you?
> >
> > I don't have numbers. But even if I'm wrong, what does it cost us to
> > try it and to be honest about we're trying to achieve?
>
> Feel free to use rolling.debian.net, set it up and have success. Like
> aj did with setting up testing (after frozen has burned IIRC three
> release managers without an release). "Show that it works" is the
> Debian principle, and it works pretty well.
Note that the "you can do it on your own" argument doesn't really hold,
because it can only work if there's a project-wide agreement that we
should work in that direction.
- Lucas
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