Oliver, On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:29:59PM +0100, Oliver Doepner wrote:
> i just want to know what's going on and understand what the problems > and/or current steps are. a webpage with a dynamically generated list of > rc-bugs and some explaination on how to proceed and what is most urgent to > be done would probably help even the non-hacking users and contributors. > it's mainly a question of transpareny i think. A running list of RC bugs can be found at <http://bugs.debian.net/>. A graph of the freeze progress (in terms of remaining RC bugs) can be seen at <http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/>. > i've heard of a theory that there are many debian developers who get > along rather nicely using and tweaking woody or sid for their own needs > and "probably" have no big incentive to work on woody>stable. > i cannot really believe this: it sounded a bit harsh and was spread by > someone who is no debian developer himself. but then i read that adrian > bunk - someone who most of you surely know - wrote in a mail some weeks > ago that "It seems noone really cares to get woody released.": There are some of us who care a good deal. I'm sorry that Adrian was driven to leaving by his frustration with the process, but we have made a good deal of progress since January as the above-mentioned links show. The freeze is continuing, as a recent announcement from the Release Manager reminds us, and right now there's no reason to think that Woody can't still be released this spring. Follow-ups directed to debian-devel; discussions of release mechanics and timetables are inherently development topics. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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