On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:13:15PM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > Russ Allbery a ?crit : > >>Hi, would like to know which day of December will be launched and > >>version of the Debian Etch Stable. > >So would we. :) > >The only answer we can give you is "when it's ready," which may or may not > >be in December. > If I were a troll-feeder, I would say that you can wait peacefully as > we have paid-release-managers working hard on it. Well, that's not really accurate in the first place -- Steve's contracted period's already up, and Andi's has only a few more days left. Personally, I'd say that now would be the time for any anti-payment people to say "we can do this better, and look, we'll prove it", and make up their own target date for etch, and demonstrate how much energy and effort can be mustered just by having a good idea and good people and putting them together to get a goal achieved. It might be that many of the anti-payment people are actually also just not that interested in getting the release out (or are even opposed to it), though. And I've been told they're probably too cynical to try something like the above anyway, so it's probably unlikely. In the context of an experiment to find out whether paying people to do Debian work can be useful, it'd certainly provide some useful information as to whether there are better alternatives for encouraging contributions and getting things done. Cheers, aj
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