On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:18:16AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Reading the observation of "speeding up the release cycle," I wonder if > the new release efforts should not be invoked shortly after the libc6 > logjam breaks, particularly if KDE 3.1 and Gnome 2/2.2 can be brought in > with it. That would hopefully mean a package freeze coming into place in > June or July, and with luck, a release in time for early September. Wow, such optimism! While that would be a pleasant surprise, I've been guessing somewhere between 12/03 and 3/04 myself, especially given that a lot of geek events are going to be distracting maintainers this year. Namely, The Matrix 2 *and* 3 are coming out this summer, as well as I think another Lord of the Rings movie and/or Star Wars III, though I'm not sure about the last two; plus all the normal stuff like Comdex and Linuxworld, et al. deb.conf.au is also supposed to be going on sometime soon, if it hasn't already happened. > Alternately, we will end up with the usual release delays (which if you > have ever been involved in a major project only a fraction the size of > Debian, are a given) and no matter what the best intentions, unbridled > dedication and skilled programming efforts, we will still end up with > the usual "close to two years or so" time until the next release. This being said, if you want it to release faster, pick up a compiler and go over here: http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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