Re: More 5 november in the release schedule
Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:55:13 +0100, wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:45:23 +0100, Samuel Thibault
> <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> >Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:37:13 +0100, wrote:
> >> On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:06:33 +0200, Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> wrote:
> >> >I'm even willing to justify my opinion: Keeping testing in a state
> >> >that can be released seems to be the only way in which we can make a
> >> >release in a reasonable time frame. We've tried several other
> >> >approaches, which haven't worked. The approach of "let's freeze and
> >> >then try to fix things" didn't work. Let's not try it again.
> >>
> >> I do not think that it is a service to our users to release an
> >> incomplete distribution just for the sake of keeping a date.
> >
> >As said above, it's *not* a matter of "keeping a date", but "getting
> >something out at all within reasonable time".
>
> This means that we didn't to this with squeeze, wheezy and jessie.
That was an awful lot of work for the release team, as well as decisions
to abitrary drop some packages, to get something out, which they
shouldn't have to bear.
> I have seen installations moving away from Debian because we keep
> releasing too often.
You'll always deceive somebody when doing anything in any kind of way.
Samuel
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