#include <hallo.h> * Gergely Nagy [Sat, Oct 23 2004, 10:44:58PM]: > > - 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. I, for one, wouldn't run unstable on my > parents' box, whereas testing proved to be quite reliable there.
Ehm... what is wrong with running stable with backports? Why do you not install a such combination for your parents, what is wrong with that? - Missing few important pieces of software? Backport them - all the packages are out of date? Well, though luck, this is what the whole issue is about. We need to release faster. Faster releases are only feasible if enough developers are motivated. They are motivated if Unstable is blocked and they must care about the release instead of working on stuff that makes "more fun". > Freezing unstable will get you nothing compared to what we have now. What do we have? Release times reaching eternity? Testing, full of hidden / obscure bugs that have not been visible in Sid, or that are fixed in Sid but the update got stuck somewhere? > Those who don't care about a release, will not care that way either, > just their complaints will get louder and more frequent. Those who are How should they complain? "We cannot update foo in Sid because it has been frozen for three weeks now, nya, nya". The answer would be some analogue to RTFM (HTFR, help the f... release). > willing to do the work neccessary for the release are already trying to
