Re: Debian dead?
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 01:45:33AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Will there ever be another release of debian or will there be a succession
> of frozen but never released attempts?
Yes, I would say so.
> I know, I know ... Bonser, get off your ass and contribute but the truth
> is I have already had to beg off of two projects that I DEARLY wanted to
> contribute to so that I can start a new project at work (hopefully using
> free software and Debian Linux).
If you have much time, become Debian maintainer or even developer. If you
have little time, try to fix bugs. If you have no time, ... hey, how can you
use Linux :)
> In the meantime, I see a list of showstopper bugs that seems to keep
> growing rather than shrinking and yet see ever more packages added to
> slink.
Yes, the probelm is that there are some showstopper bugs. However, not every
developer is capable of fixing them. The time and knowledge of every developer
is limited, and why is it wrong to upload packages to slink if one can't fix
one of the critical bugs?
> What's the deal?
Debian will not release a system with known critical bugs. I recommend
everyone who wants to use Debian 2.0 to take a look at the critical bug
list. If no bug applies to his environment (a lot of bugs are against
ftp.debian.org anyway), hamm should be quite stable for him/her.
Thank you,
Marcus
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