On 03/05/11 at 13:31 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 03/05/2011 11:41, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > It is clear from the discussion that there would be consequences. Some > > would be negative, some positive. I think that we have now a pretty good > > understanding of the possibilities and their consequences. The remaining > > problem is to count DDs heads in the two camps: > > - "Let's focus on stable releases. A rolling release should not be > > provided officially by Debian." > > - "Let's see what we can do about rolling, provided we find a way to do it > > without diminishing the quality of our stable releases." > > > > I hope my message will be clear here. But, I find your message quite > subjective. Without reading your message or knowing your opinion on the > subject, we can very easily guess that you prefer the second option. > > I don't think that putting people in "camps" would resolve anything here. > The first option is not about making it not officially provided by Debian, > but there are people that are not convinced yet by the idea and some of > them think that sacrificing stable for the sake of a hype is not a good > idea especially with no evidence that it'll work. There are other > arguments against and your two options really can't summarize all opinions > and looks to me an easy way to diminish what has been said during all this > thread. > > And, no, I don't agree when you say "I think that we have now a pretty > good understanding of the possibilities and their consequences". All this > thread is about this issue particularly. We don't know yet the > consequences that rolling would have on our stable releases. But, we can't > simply adopt it without having any guarantee on its success. Because if it > turns out that users still prefer $other, then we gained nothing but some > burden within Debian and some bad consequences for Wheezy.
What kind of guarantees are you looking for, exactly? Can you suggest ways to acquire them? L. -- 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/20110503125405.gb19...@xanadu.blop.info
