Why not freeze in June 2010 instead of December 2009 and then freeze again in December 2011*? Mark Shuttleworth seems (at least seemed) to be fine with delaying Ubuntu LTS by half a year to get Ubuntu and Debian in sync [1]:
| The LTS will be either 10.04 or 10.10 - based on the conversation that | is going on right now between Debian and Ubuntu. Besides having more time to make Squeeze a great Debian release, one could also revisit the need to support "skip-upgrades" if the freeze would be postponed. In his blog Lucas highlights the similarity between the next Ubuntu LTS and the next Debian release, but he also points out the need to differentiate us from Ubuntu. This sounds contrary. He also asks how we are relevant but does not give an answer [2]: | after the releases (both Ubuntu’s and Debian’s), users will get to | choose between two very similar distributions. We need to think about | how Debian will differenciate itself from Ubuntu: what should we | emphasize? How are we relevant? I hope he does not want to imply that we should let Ubuntu release for us anytime in the future. Some pros and cons of such a step have already been discussed in our wiki years ago [3]. Carsten * Or freeze again in December 2012 if one and a half year is not enough time between two Ubuntu LTS releases. [1] http://derstandard.at/fs/1246541995003/Interview-Shuttleworth-about-GNOME-30---Whats-good-whats-missing-what-needs-work [2] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=375 [3] http://wiki.debian.org/LetUbuntuReleaseForUs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
