Re: Questions for candidate Walther
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:42:17PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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?
Currently, we barely have the resources to keep up with one release. When
real life events subtract from the free time of the security team, we often
fall behind. The age of the stable release is a real concern here; the
older it gets, the less code we're able to share with others who are fixing
the same bugs, and so the greater load placed on Debian itself.
--
- mdz
Reply to: