Re: debian-release FAQ wikipage?
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.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/02/msg00075.html to
whom I privately explained the term "release candidate", and the jobs of
maintainers and the ftp masters.
Drew Daniels
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