On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:51:10PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Matt Zimmerman said: > > I do not think that version number milestones are important for a > > release. I think that having a well-integrated, high-quality > > distribution is important for a release, and this is not so easily > > monitored. > > Releasing with KDE 2.2, GNOME 1, and a default of GCC 2.95 would be just > plain pathetic.
I don't run KDE or GNOME, so I care hardly at all what version we release with. Most of the people I know who use GNOME 1 are unhappy with the current state of GNOME 2 anyway. gcc I use, but 3.3 has been in testing for some time now. > So sometimes, version number milestones *are* important for a release. > Admittedly, most of the time they are not such a big deal. They are important to you, apparently, because otherwise we are "pathetic". I personally do not feel the same way. > I guess what really matters here is having versions which aren't > ludicrously out of date. Specifically, if something was released upstream > over a year ago, and Debian releases with an even *older* version (without > good reason), that's not good at all. If something has been in unstable for a year and hasn't managed to have few enough bugs to make it into testing, then I don't care to have it in the release (either the older or newer version). -- - mdz
