RE: Debian - Release Cadence Options
> Hell, no ! It's already...
Language please. I specifically indicated that it was merely a _friendly_ suggestion. :-) Impressed with your work and others' work to provide Debian Stable and I'm also aware of shiny new toy syndrome. :-) For server, I would use stable! But for desktop and development, I like the latest available as it's constantly improved, and with Wayland support, this is especially important. It's not the days of decades of X11 and minor updates to it. We're in an important transition phase to a new desktop environment platform.
I am considering using unstable, and would be happy to provide feedback on any findings. If someone could point me to the best contact for such feedback, so that I may be helpful, I would be grateful. (Introduce myself: I'm particularly focused on Rust now, but I have a background in kernels and C/C++/C# [30 yrs exp.]. I also have BSEE + post-grad MS courses).
Sincerely,
Greg McPherran
On 10/17/2025 8:50 AM EDT thomas@goirand.fr wrote:
On Oct 16, 2025 18:09, Greg McPherran <gm@mcpherranweb.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I certainly understand the stable model. However, if I may suggest considering a cadence option similar to Ubuntu and Fedora that provide an official release every 6 months or so.
Hell, no ! It's already too demanding to upgrade servers every 2 years, plus backporting security patches is already too much work that we don't want to impose on ouraeves 4 times more.
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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