Re: Stability of testing
On 19 Jan 2001, John Galt wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Bill Wohler wrote:
>
> > If the stability of stable is 10 and the stability of unstable is 1,
> > how would you rate the testing distribution? (This might be a useful
> > metric to post on the Debian site to help Debian users decide which
> > distribution is for them.)
>
> 5-7. Packages may change daily, but have (some of the) bugs worked out.
> Extremely bleeding edge software won't make it in to testing, because of
> the requirements to move a package from unstable to testing include
> usability on all architectures and some other things that imply letting it
> cook a little longer. If unstable is raw, and stable is well done, call
> testing rare to medium rare.
>
I've been tracking testing every day or two since its inception and so
far (fingers crossed) everything has worked flawlessly.
Anthony
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