In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Collins writes: >On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 01:28:13AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:02:47AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: .... >> > > Since I'm being held responsible both for the current situation and for >> > > resolving it, and since no one else appears to be willing to take over >> > > that responsibility, forgive me for not being overly willing to just >> > > let 2.2r1 sit around for a couple of weeks, or overly interested in >> > > negotiating about that timeframe. >> > Part of the reason I agreed to take on organizing the info for the release >> > was so that it was taken into account for the timeframe, which doesn't >> > appear to be happening. >> >> At this moment: We. Do. Not. Have. A. Stable. Distribution. >> >> This is what we've announced. This is what the DPL asserts. This is >> what's been promulgated on news sites. It may not be the case, it may >> not be what I personally think, but it's the official Debian position, >> and it's not something that's acceptable for a couple more weeks. >> >> If there's other stuff that can make it in usefully by delaying a day or >> two, that's fine, but two weeks is not reasonable. > >Two weeks is for holidays, which Thu is one of the most major ones for >the US. I can't justify not eating thanksgiving dinner with my family (and >I'm sure others in the US will agree) just to do Debian stuff. On top of >that, I said less than two weeks, which is just to give the ports time >to do boot-floppies + testing. We don't want to just make uploads and >release without any testing. >
Well, the news release said 'expected within ten days.' If we have a date early next week, I can post an announce saying that the release will be made tuesday nov 28 (or so...) for example. The important thing is to fix a date that's not too much longer than the ten days we announced so people can react accordingly. I agree that a few days is OK, two weeks is not. IMHO the distribution needs to be working and include all available security fixes. Since fixes appear on a daily basis, we can never have a 100% up to date release security wise. Comments? Nils.
