Re: How long 'till Sarge->Stable?
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
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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