on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 07:04:50PM -0600, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:51:51PM +0000, Keith Willoughby wrote: > > Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes: > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:50:42PM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: > > > > You are quite not concrete(factual) ;-) > > > > > > Nobody can be. The response to "when will the next Debian release > > > happen" has always been "when it's ready". > > > > Is there a definition of "ready"? > > When the release manager decides it is. :) > > > No Critical bugs? > > As far as possible, plus having the same versions of packages built for > all architectures, plus having gone through a test cycle in which > nothing was reported that merited holding up the release, plus having > working installation disks for all architectures, plus probably a few > things I haven't thought of here. "Ready" is usually obvious as the > freeze progresses, but one thing that's clear now is that it isn't ready > yet. > > It gets harder as the number of packages and architectures both grow, > which is one of the problems the testing distribution is trying to > solve. Incidentally, where is the release process / requirements documented? I poked around the Debian website but didn't find same. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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