On Sb, 13 feb 21, 11:57:42, Michael Grant wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 11:31:16AM -0500, songbird wrote: > > yes, but since Debian is run by volunteers and many of > > them are very busy it has been talked about but not beyond > > that. the idea of rolling releases, always releasable, and > > some other phrases has been discussed, but until enough > > people get together to actually do it and prove that it > > works and will be supported it won't happen. unstable is > > perhaps the closest currently coming to that idea, but > > the freeze process pushes development off into experimental > > or upstream until the freeze is done and then the whole > > cycle comes up again. > > I understood that Unstable == Sid from Andrew's detailed message in > this thread and it's also on confirmed on this page: > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable. > > I was not thinking this would cause more (or significantly more > anyway) work than we already do. Dot releases are tested. It might > even be *less* work as upgrades would be incremental and smaller > rather than large. > > Thinking back, this is one of the beauties of Testing is that things > happen incrementally over time. Sure, I may have to fix something > here and there but that often turns out to be easier and less > stressful than doing a major upgrade and having to set aside an entire > weekend. It depends a lot on your particular setup. Many users appreciate the non-changing of stable and often go on using a particular release even beyond it's EOL (against all advice). Ubuntu started out with timed releases every 6 months (based on Debian sid), but later introduced the LTS. Clearly there is demand for both approaches. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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