> You know, I don't mean to rain on your parade too > much, but I've read 2 > messages from you on different subjects talking > about Potato being > released "soon"... > > Let me start by saying whoever told you this was > POSSIBLE is on crack. > Why can we not release "soon"? > > * Our boot disks don't work anymore > * We need to fix the cdrom layout > * Potato's perl is inconsistant, at best > * We have almost THREE HUNDRED release critical > bugs that must be fixed > prior to release > * The archive maintainers haven't had time to > process the manual stuff > in incoming for what feels like ages but is > probably more like a > couple of weeks > * dinstall seems to be broken/breaking > * Our mirrors are out of sync > * We need a reasonable testing period after we've > fixed the above > > > To everyone expecting a September release, WAKE UP! > It's NOT going to > happen. It's NOT possible, not that soon. I think > if we shoot for having > it out by the holidays it could be done, however > we've seen what happens > if it's not done by December---everyone goes on > vacation and nothing gets > done until February. =p > I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong idea. I knew damn well that a september release had a snowball's chance in hell. However someone out there is posting debian vaporware for commerical distribution, I just meant to report what I see. Myself, I'm hoping to see 2.2 before Y2K (please tell me that this at least is possible). === Amateur Radio, when all else fails!
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