On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:20:16PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > The Subversion project has much closer ties to various Linux > > distributions now than it had around the time of the 1.6 pre-release > > phase. This is partly due to efforts by elego -- we actively help out > > with the official Debian, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE packages. > > ...Maybe true for Ubuntu and OpenSUSE, but I've been with Debian and > Subversion for a lot longer than that.
Yes, I know. That's why I said "partly" :) > It wouldn't help people running Debian 'stable', but really, > are users of Debian stable a target audience for our prereleases? I'd say target the stable and testing versions during pre-release phase, and experimental after release. We should facilitate tests on platforms that are widely used. So during the alpha/beta/rc phase, Debian stable is more interesting than Debian experimental. Stefan