On 20041022T134825+0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Before "testing", the RM used to freeze unstable and people were > working on fixing bugs. There were pretest cycles with bug horizons, > and freezes were shorter.
That's not true (unless you are talking about something that was ceased several years before testing became live, certainly before I started following Debian development in 1998). Before testing the RM used to fork unstable into a "frozen" distribution. Unstable was still open for development, and heated arguments developed on this very list asking that the process be changed so that unstable would be frozen; this was never done. I don't know what you mean by "pretest cycles with bug horizons". The current freeze has been quite short - if one ignores the current delay by the missing testing security support - and pre-testing freezes were not that much shorter (unless, again, one looks at ancient history. when Debian was a lot smaller). > Instead of always telling than a given idea won't work, let's > try it and conclude afterwards. The problem is that on this scale trying such things out is costly and time-consuming. Arguably were are still in the process of trying "testing". -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian
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