"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes: > This policy didn't make the stable release better, or go out more > quickly. Instead, it turned this Debian release into a complete > joke Well it clearly isn't a `complete joke'. > It's all the stupid politics. >From the outside, it sounds like release management in a huge project run by volunteers from which people probably did learn lessons. Politics are kind of crucial with free software anyway.