Re: When a release is "ready." (was Re: Re: Debian has turned unusable.)

[Paul Mackinney <paul@mackinney.net>]

Colin Watson declaimed:
>    _____ _       _     _
>   |  ___(_)_ __ (_)___| |__
>   | |_  | | '_ \| / __| '_ \
>   |  _| | | | | | \__ \ | | |
>   |_|   |_|_| |_|_|___/_| |_|
>   
>    _____ _
>   |_   _| |__   ___
>     | | | '_ \ / _ \
>     | | | | | |  __/
>     |_| |_| |_|\___|
>   
>    ___           _        _ _           _
>   |_ _|_ __  ___| |_ __ _| | | ___ _ __| |
>    | || '_ \/ __| __/ _` | | |/ _ \ '__| |
>    | || | | \__ \ || (_| | | |  __/ |  |_|
>   |___|_| |_|___/\__\__,_|_|_|\___|_|  (_)
> 
Colin, you've inspired me. I'm really happy running Sarge/Testing with
frequent apt-get dist-upgrades. The only gotcha I've hit in months was
the 2.6 kernel wonking my mouse in X and making cdrtoaster use a funny
device argument (still can't find the docs but a tip from this list got
me going). Of course, I'm happy with stodgy old Mozilla and run a bare
Blackbox config in preference to GNOME or KDE. And no, Hugo, I don't use
Mondo. I run a journalling file system (ext3) which I test by
using the power button to shut down. Haven't lost a file yet :-)

But what I haven't done is give back to Debian for years of free
computing. So I'm publicly comitting to downloading CDs, testing the
installer, and reporting bugs promptly. Specifically, next weekend I'll
spend up to 4 hours on it (not counting CD burning).

Regards, Paul

PS: Points off for the ASCII art, but your credit balance (based on many
excellent posts to this list) is not threatened :-)
-- 
Paul Mackinney
paul@mackinney.net