Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:
> The thing is, that if lenny will be released post-deadline, all the
> improvements carried by it will be of no use for the 64-bit battle that
> will have finished by late 2008.
I don't believe that there will be a 64-bit battle in late 2008, and I
don't accept some loose interpolation from numbers of the past by
someone I wouldn't trust to count from 1 to 10 correctly [1] as an
argument here.
Basically I would like to development on etch to take about 18 months,
which would mean releasing in (late) 2008. I don't believe that we will
be able to hold that date, but 21 months sounds realistic, which would
mean releasing around my 23st birthday [4]. I found the etch release
cycle to be mostly OK, with only some rough edges that could be avoided
for lenny [3]
We (as the release team) will send another mail to dda in the next few
days or weeks, giving a detailed overview about our experiences with
etch, what we want to change for lenny and what pet goals we have this
time.
I don't believe that Debian is able to release in much less than 18
months, and FWIW, ESR is not a good reason to move from a goal-based
schedule to a time-based schedule.
Marc, not speaking for the release team here
Footnotes:
[1] ie not including essays about non-free multimedia crap we need to
support
[2] I would like that.
[3] QA measures searching for bugs starting very late, this should be
done earlier for etch and the kernel situation was a bit of a
problem.
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