Quoting Charles Plessy (plessy@debian.org): > In the previous release cycles, it looks like the main blocker was the Debian > Installer. As soon as it was ready, lots of remaining buggy packages were > purged from Testing and release followed quite soon. Is that the case for this > release cycle ? If yes, I guess that the focus should be to help the Installer > team, and not to fix every RC bug. Not really. D-I has been mostly released on a well-handled schedule and we now have an RC1 release which is (imho) suitable for release. Far from perfect, sure....but that's what we get for having a quite inactive D-I team during the squeeze-wheezy release cycle (/meincluded). We are incredibly lucky that Cyril stepped up and did a tremendous job releasing betas and RCs. It's definitely not a comfortable situation because we fully depend on his level of involvment but, thankfully, he did survive to all this and we have a quite functional installer for wheezy. D-I is not a blocker for the release. Hairy bug reports, lengthy discussions and often our lack of decision is more a blocker. We probably all need to be much much much mor eaggressive wrt RC bugs and shouldn't leae this up to the release team.
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