On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 02:03:13PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:44:21PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 04:15:09PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > > I've started a debian-release@d.o FAQ at > > > http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianReleaseFAQ > > > I hope it can help save some valuable release team time and reduce > > > annoying messages to this list. > > Q: Can you change testing's code name or release number? > [...] > > Hmm, is that actually a FAQ? I must've deleted those messages without > > registering their existence... > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/01/msg00016.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/08/msg00142.html > ... > Perhaps not frequent enough. > > I'm generally lukewarm about the use of wikis for disseminating information > > to developers. They make reasonable fora for iterative group-revision of > > ideas, but it's hard enough to get people to pay attention to stuff posted > > to d-d-a without also expecting people to go trawling wikis for info (which, > > btw, is something I personally will not do). > [...] > My concern was with things like the above two threads and some > uninformed posters like [1]. I specifically crafted some of the first > few questions as responses to [1]. I've seen several other questions > asking the release team to do ftp master stuff. Given your response, I'm > inclined to delete everything except for some of the links. > My intent was to reduce release-team work, but it seems my FAQ attempt > may have been misguided. Perhaps my pseudo link farm (it's a > bit more than that) replacement may be more useful. Indeed, the current collection of information seems more useful to me than a release team "FAQ" would be. Thanks for gathering these links. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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