Re: How long 'till Sarge->Stable?
On Monday 28 February 2005 13:36, Dave Sherohman wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 08:39:34AM -0600, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
>> Nobody answered the question? Could that be part of the problem?
>
>I suspect that nobody answered because, like all software projects,
>nobody truly knows when it will be ready until it is ready.
No, I doubt that. Its been said in pretty high circles of the coders
club, that the only time a program is truely finished is if somebody
shoots the programmer. However, please don't construe that to mean
I'm in favor of it, there was a time when the shootee might have been
me, but I was born 25 years too soon, and my day at "serious" codeing
is over.
>> I wonder if the debian folk have made the system to easy to
>> apt-upgrade so many feel no need to upgrade/install to a new real
>> release.
>
>One of the greatest things about Debian, IMO, is that you _never_
>have to reinstall. I have boxes that started off as slink and have
>been brought through potato, into woody, and mixed with a bit of
>sarge all through apt-get without having to reinstall at any point.
>
>> I would love to see a mandate for bi-annual (or at least annual)
>> releases no matter what. If the installer isn't ready use the old
>> one. If an architecture isn't ready they'll just have to shoot
>> for the next release date.
>> A deadline is a time tested motivator.
>
>A deadline is also a well-proven means of getting unstable, buggy
>software. That may be good enough for the rest of the world, but
>it's not good enough for Debian.
>
>> Would money help achieve this goal? Payed/professional release
>> developers?
>
>How much are you offering? Fund a full-time position or three and
>I'm sure you'd have plenty of developers willing to help get
> whatever code you want ready. The Debian Project, however, will
> still release when the code is ready and won't leave anyone behind.
>
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