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Re: Questions for candidate Walther



Le Mardi 8 Mars 2005 16:42, Matthew Garrett a écrit :
> Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@m4x.org> wrote:
> > btw, for the security team, I think it's fair to ask users to
> > upgrade=20 their distribution. If we don't assume that, then why
> > don't we support=20 debian 1.0 anymore ???
>
> It's fair to ask users to upgrade, but it's not fair to ask them to
> do so every 6 months. Many organisations will want to spend 6
> months testing a new release before rolling it out. I've no
> objection to releases every 6 months (though I'm not convinced it's
> entirely practical within Debian), but we need a support cycle
> that's longer than that. Ubuntu supports each release for 18
> months, even though they release every 6 months. Do we have the
> resources to do that?


your quoting is not fair btw ... you forgot the :
> > 6 month may be short, but between 6 month and 3 years there is some 
> > place.
part.

it's quite obvious (to me at least) that 6 month is not suitable for 
debian. but 1 year seems fine. and one upgrade per year seems fair to 
me. isn't it ?
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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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