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Re: Some questions for the candidates...



On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:03:27AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:45:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > So. The first question is is this dissatisfaction justified? How long is
> > the woody release taking compared to other releases? Well, that's easy:
> >     version   codename   freeze-date    release-date development/freeze
> >      1.1       buzz          ?          1996/06/17
> >      1.2       rex           ?          1996/12/12              6 months
> >      1.3       bo            ?          1997/06/05              6 months
> >      2.0       hamm       1998/02?      1998/07/23     8 + 6 = 14 months
> >      2.1       slink     1998/11/03     1999/03/10     4 + 4 =  8 months
> >      2.2       potato    2000/01/16     2000/08/15  [10] + 7 = [17] months
> >      3.0       woody         -           2002/04?   ~18 + ~2 = 20 months?
> I think something went wrong with your maths here ... potato was 10 + 7
> = 17 months, so woody hasn't been quite so much slower than potato as
> you suggest.

How utterly bizarre. I copied the table from a previous mail to -devel [0]
which had the right sums too.

Cheers,
aj

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/debian-devel-200005/msg00025.html

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