On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:33:24PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> It may sound a bit radical, but core points have been mentioned in the > >> thread already. I suggest to do it in a more radical way: > >> > >> - unstable lockdown in the freeze > >> - drop Testing and concentrate on work instead of wasting time on > >> synching stuff. This eliminates the need for testing-security. See > >> the last part of the paper for details. > > > > Doing this would result in many users who currently run testing fall > > back to stable + backports or switch to another distro (ubuntu being a > > likely candidate), which in turn, would result in less bugreports and a > > less stable distribution. > > Very few bug reports from testing users are of any value at all.
I respectfully disagree here. With most of my packages, bugs get filed only when the transition to testing has been complete for quite a while already, except when the bug is a /really/ severe one (severity grave or critical). When this is true, it doesn't matter whether the user is a testing one or an unstable one -- both packages simply are of the same version. -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- with thanks to fortune