On 05-Jan 09:30, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El mié, 05-01-2005 a las 04:16 -0800, Stephen Birch escribió: > > Paul van der Vlis([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-04 14:40: > > > Hello, > > > > > > One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it > > > takes for a new stable version. > > > > I guess one man's meat is another man's poison. > > > > Since I administer a large number of distant computers I view the long > > time between stable releases as a feature not a bug. > > > > > What about saying something like: the next stable release comes in the > > > beginning of 2006? > > > > Once a year works for me, but any more frequent would be a pain in the > > neck. Frankly a release every 18 months seems about right. > > I agree with you on this. People using stable can not cope with > upgrades each 6 months or so. Is that really true? I would love to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" every half a year. Currently it doesn't get me much. :) Now, for production systems, don't you do some testing *before* you upgrade the OS?
When debian release on a much fast and predictable schedule, it might be nice to have longer security support. Maybe the security team would only really _track_ security related problems and "remind" maintainers that they needed to update thier debs in Stable-1, and Stable-2. Thomas
