On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:56:37PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | On 7 May 2002, Mario Vukelic wrote: | | > Also, especially in the release process of woody I find this highly | > inconvenient :) I would sleep better knowing that I track "woody", not | > "testing", when a new "testing" can pop up over night, and "woody" | > suddenly means "stable" | | I think that third, special tree goes away for a few weeks while the | maintainers start actively grinding on unstable again, until someone | decides, "Hey, we're ready to move forward again," in which we get a new | fork off of unstable which gets called some name for a while that I | can't remember before renamed to testing, and later, stable.
I think that's the old-school release mechanism (developed when
"testing" didn't exist). I think the new mechanism is to have
"testing" rebranded as "stable" at some point, but otherwise remain
unchanged. The effect is that, for a while, testing==stable (this
time sarge==woody) until the latest updates in sid propagate their way
down. The theory is that that will eliminate the stop-and-wait
bottleneck with the old process.
-D
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