squeeze release cycle?
So, there was a long discussion here after Debconf about the merits or
lack thereof of a freeze date at the end of this year for a squeeze
release early next year. My general feeling of the discussion was that
there was a fair bit of opposition to freezing and releasing so quickly
after lenny, but since that's also my personal opinion, I may be
misreading the discussion. Either way, where I think we left that
discussion was with a statement that no decision had been made and the
release team and others were going to think about this and provide more
information later.
Since then, I've not seen anything further, and I have seen Ubuntu folks
talking about the Debian squeeze release cycle as if it's a sure thing and
we've already decided. It's also come up in a few other contexts in
Debian. However, I don't think we *have* decided, so I'm concerned that
we're giving people incorrect impressions.
What's the status of this decision?
I personally think Debian should standardize on a two-year release cycle,
as previously discussed, with no special exceptions for squeeze, which
means that our next release would be in 2011 and we would be one year
desynchronized from the Ubuntu LTS release. I read Mark Shuttleworth's
posts here with interest and I understand his motivations, but I don't
believe it's in the best interests of Debian to change the squeeze release
cycle for a plan for which he has essentially no other support outside of
Ubuntu. If he can get substantial support elsewhere in the free software
community, we can revisit that decision, but in the meantime I think we
should do what's best for Debian, and I don't think a one-year release
cycle is best for Debian.
However, more urgently, I'd like to understand who's making this decision,
if a decision is made, and if not, when it's going to be made so that I
can plan both for the systems I administer and for my packages.
Thanks!
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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