I'd like to respond to some of the feelings of apprehension people may be feeling right now, with Bruce leaving, and possibly infected by the completely unrelated problems with hamm at this moment.
Regarding the state of hamm, (and this is the easy one), the freeze didn't come off quite smoothly, and we're in a "half-frozen" state right now. This will be fixed by Monday no doubt, for any of you intreprid hamm users. We'll see the system stabilize quickly too, as all the last-minute changes start to settle. Regarding the issue of Bruce's departure, and some of the deeper personality issues, I see this just as the normal stress and strain of the the freedom of the environment, and the heterogeny of the personalities on this project. This is our strength, not our weakness, paradoxically. Debian 2.0, when it is released, will represent a significant improvement in the quality, consistency, and ease-of-user of Debian. It's gonna rock. I run it now; it already rocks. Our next cycle (2.1) should be free of some of the stresses of this one, due to less incompatibility between the consecutive releases. Speaking as a developer, my enthusiasm with Debian is undampened by Bruce's departure. It's the enthusiasm of new developers like myself and hopefully you, and the enthusiasm and suggestions from users like yourselves, which make Debian better. The one last point I'd like to make is that there are plenty of developers and users who feel that ease-of-use is important, and that we're progressing here too by leaps and bounds. And all it takes is a enough dedicated writers, scripts, and testers to really improve the "feel" of system. I just wanted to point out that us developers are users too, and we care about lowering the steep curve of Unix wherever we can. .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
