Re: Staged Freezes
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 06:40:18PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Chris Leishman <masklin@debian.org> writes:
>
> > What do you think?
>
> I don't think it can be done the way your suggesting it. However, if
> we were on a package pool kinda plan, where developers always upload
> to unstable and some sort of release team who pull packages down into
> a release candidate distro, then it might be a good idea.
>
Why don't you think so?
As for the package pool - the problem I see here is that it puts alot of
strain onto the release team - they have to work out which packages they can
pull down (and which versions, to maintain stability).
Also, if everyone is uploading to unstable, then release stability is going to
be difficult to achieve since no developers needs to have total stability as
a primary goal. Sure, they will have their packages internally stable - but
since they don't know what other code bases its going to be working with, they
can't work towards stability in terms of interoperation with the rest of the
distribution (eg they don't really know which libraries, etc, etc will be in
the final release).
The other problem is that you are no longer goal setting for the large body of
developers. There is no "we want to freeze in 1 week - lets get everything
done people". IMHO a project like this really relies on goal setting to keep
developers interested and active.
If my opinion means anything, we should steer well away from the idea of
developers only working on a perpetual "unstable" distribution...
Regards,
Chris
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