Hello, On 18/03/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also note that having both Debian releases *and* official Hurd releases, > we get more exposure... :-) > > > > It preserves the current status: "The Hurd doesn't do releases until > > it is mostly feature complete" while putting out news and promoting > > the work of the Debian people as well as the advances inside the Hurd. > > > But do we *want* to preserve that terrible state?... > > Sooner or later we will *have* to release -- and the longer we wait, the > stronger the pressure to come up with something ground breaking. It > get's worse and worse. We need to break this evil circle; the sooner we > do that, the less painful it will be. > > The strategy I suggest is to create a 0.3 release very soon; put up the > tarball and some release notes on the server, but never announce it > anywhere. A bit later, do that again with 0.3.1. Maybe with 0.3.2 or so > we could already announce it in a very careful manner. With 0.3.3, more > openly. And so on.
I think that this idea is pretty good. This way, by the time most people realize that we are doing releases > (again), it will be business as usual. "Yeah, right, another development > release. We have been doing these for some time now, haven't you > noticed?..." > > Regards, -- Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://www.swatantra.org/ http://translate.swatantra.org/
