Hi, On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Heya, > > Raphael, it would be so great to reply to messages in single mails > instead of squeezing (are you release-themed, or what?) all of your > answers into one mail. I'm really tired of chasing a specific answer > From you through the whole thread.
I thought it was a good practice to reduce the overall amount of mails and to be able to avoid too many repetitions or references to other mails. > Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > > But I don't plan to work on any of those if the project does not agree to > > promote testing to something that can be advertised as usable by end-users > > and as something that we strive to support on a best-effort basis. > > What does a best-effort basis mean? I cannot imagine a use case where this > might make sense, and I haven't found any presentation of one by you. "best-effort" characterizes the way we contribute to Debian, it means the maintainer should do its best to ensure his packages in testing are in a good shape. There might be times when he fails due to lack of time but then he should try to get help. Right now, a maintainer can legitimately ignore testing until freeze because Debian does not support testing, testing is just a tool to prepare a release. I want to change that and never hear that objection again. I want that new maintainers that join Debian know up-front that their task involves managing packages in stable and in rolling (and in frozen should that happen). > Who is going to install a "rolling" release instead of "testing"? If we change our documentation to say that rolling can be used by anyone who likes a constantly evolving distribution (and can live with the occasionnal hiccup) and that we will do our best to support it, then the public of testing/rolling will be larger. And a larger public, in particular in that set of users who likes bleeding edge stuff, is likely to mean more efficient testing of packages and possibly more contributors. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110430074538.gf19...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
