Re: How long 'till Sarge->Stable?
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:36:59PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:52:29AM -0600, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> > Now you are getting to the heart of my question.
> >
> > 1) If you could do a "perfect" release every year would you want to?
>
> Personally, yeah! Debian's long release cycle doesn't bother me, but
Actually, anyone who thinks it is a worth their time and effort can
create a distribution 'based on Debian' that gets a new release every
hour or every day. A few scripts would off-load a snapshot of testing,
insert some standard statements about a derived work and expose the
result to the web. Hourly, would be really silly, because Debian updates
only daily. But daily would also be silly, unless there is a market
out there for a distribution that claims to be stable, but with absolutely
no hard data support for the claim. Make it a snapshot of SID, rather
than testing. I bet there are corporate types who might be impressed by
such a con. But what you gain is a lot less than the Whole World, and
you would still pay the Biblical price.
I think people who advocate a release according to a schedule, rather
than when the work product of ready, should be ashamed of themselves.
What is to point of conning people when you are not even trying to
steal from them?
> the length is not exactly a positive attribute, either. If Debian
> could do a perfect release every hour, I'd say to go for it. As long
> as it provides the current standards of stability/robustness/
> completeness, very frequent releases are just gravy. My deal is just
> that I'm not willing to sacrifice the meat (stability) for the sake
> of more gravy (recent versions of software).
>
> > 2) If you had one, two or three payed debian workers do you think that
> > would help to achieve
> > that goal.
>
> As the previous response pointed out, a few paid Debian developers
> might not help much (if at all), but I think that they probably
> would. I think the greater danger, though, might not be that they
> would find other ways to spend your money, but rather that overall
> progress would be slowed by volunteers abandoning the project, either
> because they think the paid guys should be able to handle it or from
> feelings of "I'm doing the same thing he is, why aren't I getting
> paid, too?".
>
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Paul E Condon
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