Hello,
I'm a bit new to Debian but just wanted to add my $0.02 to this discussion, since it's something that I personally find very interesting. Firstly, I think the question should be, "which users would be targeted by a rolling release?" I don't think there are many people out who have the need for *both* really stable and supported *and* up-to-date packages and this might not even be possible without a huge team to work on it. IMHO the rolling release should be targeted at people who want the latest stuff but don't care that much about stability. I had a quick talk on this with a couple of people on IRC where I suggested starting with a 'clone' of the testing repository, and changing a couple of the rules, like not having a freeze for example and maybe increasing the time it takes packages to 'promote' from unstable into rolling. This might not make the most stable configuration but I think it would be a good compromise between having the latest packages and not having any really serious bugs. I for one would only dislike bugs that cause a data loss or a non-operable system, and from what I know these are pretty rare even in testing. If it then would be also possible to decrease the release time of stable to something around a year, I think this might make everyone happy, both the 'stability freaks' and the average Joe. -- Best regards, Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Cristian Henzel -- 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/4dbf97dd.4080...@b3r3.info
