On Thursday, May 05, 2011 08:03:39 AM Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Currently Experimental is the place to upload things not ready for use > > except under very narrow circumstances. It gets abused as a place for > > new versions during freeze as it is, but if it's the defined path into > > Rolling during freezes then there's a need to separate these two > > functions, IMO. > > If it's not ready for use except under very narrow circumstances, why > upload to the Debian archive (rather than a patch to a bug report, > say) at all? > > I personally don't think uploading packages to experimental before it > is time for them to participate in transitions to testing and > integrate with the rest of the next stable distribution is abuse at > all. In fact I wish people would do it more often.
I'll grant you abuse is too strong a term, but that doesn't change that if Experimental is suddenly in the path to Rolling during a freeze it is less useful for the traditional function of being 'experimental'. Scott K -- 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/201105050809.23907.deb...@kitterman.com
