Re: slink=frozen still??

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Ken Long wrote:
> 
> Hi there.  I'm curious about something.
> 
> When is the target for slink to be released now??
> 
> Looking back, I see that it was officially frozen on November 4th and the
> information on the web page states a target date of sometime in December of
> 1998 for release.  Well, it's February of 1999 now and it's been frozen
> for 3.5 months (nearly a third of a year) and I still see no mention of it
> ever being released.  Is anyone still working on this or have all the
> developers moved on to potato and forgotten about slink?
> 
> You know, from an outside viewpoint, looking at the annouce list, it seems
> to me like people are more worried with constitutions and logos and press
> than with putting out software!   Shoot - missed deadlines and playing
> politics instead....what is this?  Microsoft??  ;)
> 
> -Ken
> 


	Slink will be released when slink is ready, and no sooner.  The
developers give out an estimated guess of when a dist will be
released because otherwise everyone bugs them about it.  Its just
a guess though.

	The issue of the developers moving to potato before finishing
slink may be a valid question though.  I believe this has come up
on debian-user before.


-- 
Ed C.