Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 11 2009, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>> I basically oppose such a GR, as it is is merely speculative (who
>> knows _now_ or at the GR voting time when we will be close to
>> achieving our release goals?), and because it is a ruling on a
>> technical subject (at least according to some metrics). But if the
>> vote were to be held at all, I would add:
>>
>> 6. The Debian project recognizes the responsible team to take any
>> decisions regarding the freeze date and reach to be the Release
>> Team, and accepts their best judgement in this regard.
>
> Perhaps you should look at this less confrontationally. The vote
> is a non-binding recommendation, it is an information gathering vote
> where people provide feedback to the release team; by voting for the
> option that best suits their development plans.
While I can't really disagree with this, I don't think a GR will
actually provide all the needed information.
In a GR, quite a few people will prefer one option over the other for
reasons that have nothing to do with the feasibility or quality of a
freeze at a given point [1].
I believe answers to a short questionnaire (what will be released when?
should it be in squeeze) would help a lot more, and thus I'm currently
working with the rest of the release team to send such mails.
At this point, I would like to once again apologize for the less than
optimal handling of communication between the release team and the rest
of the project in the past month. [2] The last weeks were shaped by
discussions that would have been unneeded if we had explained proposals
in a better way (and marked them more clearly as proposals) and avoided
some (now obvious) mistakes.
Marc
Footnotes:
[1] As example, people who know that they have a few thousand machines
running lenny will probably prefer a later date, so that they don't
need to do mass dist-upgrades after just 30 months.
[2] Please note that this statement is not a coordinated release team
statement, but an expression of my personal feelings.
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