On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:27:19 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> I don't know where these features use to be advertized, I follow >>> debian- news, debian-announce, debian planet and often read debian >>> developers blogs and this went completely unnoticed to me. I think this >>> is something most users are awaiting for and would be glad to try, >>> check and report over... unless they're unaware about the possibility >> >> There probably isn't a "debian-testing-announce" because, AFAIK, >> "testing" was never meant to be a widely-used release. > > Sure, but there is a "project" and "news" mailing list for that precisely > purpose: to allow users seeing what's going on inside the project and > Debian next steps or proposed directions. > > For instance, it was recently published there that wheezy will get kernel > 3.2, what's the current status of gnome3 in wheezy, etc... very useful > stuff. > >> The announcement of the availability of WPA in d-i'll probably be done >> when Wheezy's released, > > Publishing a new feature at the Release Notes is too late for people can > test and debug that feature properly, don't you think?
No idea, except to say that the devs wouldn't willingly ship something that's untested or under-tested. >> in the same way that there wasn't a "we're now >> defaulting to grub2 in testing" announcement when Squeeze was >> "testing"; I've just googled "grub2 >> site:lists.debian.org/debian-announce" and "grub2 >> site:lists.debian.org/debian-news"). > > I read about the GRUB2 transition from Debian Planet and I'm sure sure it > was aired in many other places, too. Yes, but it wasn't announced publicly. It was a more visible change than the addition of wpasupplicant-udeb to d-i and was widely discussed on this list pre-release because so many of us run "testing" and "unstable" (and Ubuntu). I've just checked "grub2 site:lists.debian.org/debian-project" too; nada. And grub2 was a big, cross-distribution change so it wasn't Debian-specific, Debian-installer specific and therefore was widely discussed/attacked/praised... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=Sy=PeW+E_yF8hJnBh1Mf-CHZgBXcYQ=6ycvh5g84wv...@mail.gmail.com
