Re: Stable Release plan
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:45:50PM +0100, lance wrote:
> > > > Considering how stable releaes were handled recently or better how
> > > > they weren't handled properly with regards to our duty to our users,
> > > > my plan is to release a new point release of stable about every one to
> > > > two monthts. I'll continue to prepare releases and help our
> > > > ftp-masters with this.
> > > >
> > > > Having said that, I'm already preparing 2.2r4 so it could be released
> > > > around mid of May: http://people.debian.org/~joey/2.2r4/
> > >
> > > As a CD vendor - please try to keep a minimum time between point releases
> > > - say 3 months ??
> >
> > No. Three months is too much. Please burn & sell the current point
> > release. People who take care of security have to update anyway. They
> > can get their updates from the net. If they don't care, the n-1, n-2
> > point release is fine for them.
>
> I think you have missed my point - we dont burn gold disks - we press
> 6 CD sets of Debian. It takes 2 weeks to get the disks pressed. If we only
> have 2 weeks to sell them it will not be viable.
Do you honestly think we could manage to do one point release per month? :)
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