On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 04:54, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:18:16AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 18:34, nate wrote: > > > gnome2 should be available in the next debian stable release(NOT > > > the next POINT release, i.e. 'revision') which if my past experience > > > holds will be in approx another year and a half. That is assuming there > > > isn't a gnome 3 by then :) I think the debian folks are working on > > > speeding up the release cycle, so the next major rev may come out > > > sooner. > > > > 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. > > It would be nice, but we also need debian-installer to be nearly ready > on a sensible number of supported architectures before it's possible to > freeze. Once *that* happens, things start looking a lot saner. I don't > have a good feel for its current condition, though. > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk] I'd heard presumptions of debian-installer (or something conceptually in the same vein) being a requirement for shipping Woody (or probably more semantically correct, designating Woody as "the current stable edition",) and yet Woody is now the base selection. Offhand, I'd suggest that if a release comes out with debian-installer, it would be 4.0, simply for the major change in the nature of the user interaction with a stable system. Of course, I think those of us with comfortably installed systems already don't consider debian-installer to be as much of a priority as those starting off with a new system. Oh, how soon we forget ;) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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