"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > IMHO it's somewhat silly to "stop the experiment now" and drop >> > testing. Although there are problems with testing, there *are* >> > well-known positives of having it. >> >> All the known positives are outweighted by the negative issues as >> described before. > > I don't think so. > > For me, existance of testing allows running more-or-less up-to-date systems > without facing current development problems with packages/subsystems that > I'm not involved in.
Yeah, me too. I run unstable at work (where I have a fast/reliable net connection), and testing at home (where I don't). Testing seem to hit a sweet spot in the reliability/update-frequency continuum for me. Now, whether testing does or does not help the "make a new stable release" problem, I don't know -- but it most certainly _is_ useful for normal users, and er, aren't they the whole (or at least most of the) point? -Miles -- Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.
