John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > >>There's very little resistance from developers to increase the release >>frequency. Nearly everyone agrees the current cycles are too long. >> >>I think the problem mostly stems from Debian not scaling well. The >>distribution keeps growing in both size and complexity (more packages, >>more architectures, larger programs with more dependencies, etc.) but >>we're still using roughly the same release process we used back when >>Debian was a fraction of its current size. >> >> >> > The requirement to release all architecures at once must cause > problems. I expect that after IA32/AMD64, PPC (in particular Mac) there > are relatively few developers with a keen interest in the supported > architectures.
It certainly has taken significant time to get the installer up to snuff for non-x86 and PPC arches... -- You win again, gravity! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
