On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:51:59AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 04:54, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:18:16AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 18:34, nate wrote: > > > > gnome2 should be available in the next debian stable release(NOT > > > > the next POINT release, i.e. 'revision') which if my past experience > > > > holds will be in approx another year and a half. That is assuming there > > > > isn't a gnome 3 by then :) I think the debian folks are working on > > > > speeding up the release cycle, so the next major rev may come out > > > > sooner. > > > > > > Reading the observation of "speeding up the release cycle," I wonder if > > > the new release efforts should not be invoked shortly after the libc6 > > > logjam breaks, particularly if KDE 3.1 and Gnome 2/2.2 can be brought in > > > with it. > > > > It would be nice, but we also need debian-installer to be nearly ready > > on a sensible number of supported architectures before it's possible to > > freeze. Once *that* happens, things start looking a lot saner. I don't > > have a good feel for its current condition, though. > > > > -- > > Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I'd heard presumptions of debian-installer (or something conceptually in > the same vein) being a requirement for shipping Woody (or probably more > semantically correct, designating Woody as "the current stable > edition",)
Well, it was supposed to be ready for woody, but it was decided to go with boot floppies one last time. AFAIK, everyone involved has refused to ever touch bf again, so sarge will not becoming out until we have some sort of new installer :) > and yet Woody is now the base selection. Offhand, I'd suggest > that if a release comes out with debian-installer, it would be 4.0, > simply for the major change in the nature of the user interaction with a > stable system. Heh, there was rather large flamewar about this very topic on d-d in the past couple of weeks. -rob
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