Re: squeeze release cycle?

2009-11-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > critical" bugs. That gave to nice aphorisms like "release when > ready", but did not really cater to timeliness of the releases. We are speaking of the freeze date, not the release date. > other way: Where timeliness trumps the quality. We also

Re: squeeze release cycle?

2009-11-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Nov 09 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 09 Nov 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: >> So, there was a long discussion here after Debconf about the merits or >> lack thereof of a freeze date at the end of this year for a squeeze >> release early next year. My general feeling of the discussion

Re: squeeze release cycle?

2009-11-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > So, there was a long discussion here after Debconf about the merits or > lack thereof of a freeze date at the end of this year for a squeeze > release early next year. My general feeling of the discussion was that > there was a fair bit of opposition to f

Re: squeeze release cycle?

2009-11-09 Thread Robbie Williamson
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 21:19 -0200, Andre Felipe Machado wrote: > Hello, > There is still a staged proposal that could benefit BOTH entities that still > remains unanswered by Canonical: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/08/msg00273.html Ah, yes...I can answer this. We are *very* inte

Re: squeeze release cycle?

2009-11-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 04:50:36PM -0600, Robbie Williamson wrote: > I can't speak for all of Ubuntu, but the only thing I have heard is a > *proposal* to freeze in March. I read[0] that 'lucid lynx' (being LTS) will sync from 'testing' as opposed to 'unstable'. Does this affect affect Debian's re

Re: squeeze release cycle?

2009-11-09 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, There is still a staged proposal that could benefit BOTH entities that still remains unanswered by Canonical: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/08/msg00273.html Regards. Andre Felipe Machado http://www.techforce.com.br

Re: squeeze release cycle?

2009-11-09 Thread Robbie Williamson
I can't speak for all of Ubuntu, but the only thing I have heard is a *proposal* to freeze in March. On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 14:32 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > So, there was a long discussion here after Debconf about the merits or > lack thereof of a freeze date at the end of this year for a squeez

squeeze release cycle?

2009-11-09 Thread Russ Allbery
So, there was a long discussion here after Debconf about the merits or lack thereof of a freeze date at the end of this year for a squeeze release early next year. My general feeling of the discussion was that there was a fair bit of opposition to freezing and releasing so quickly after lenny, but

Programmers motivation research

2009-11-09 Thread Mark Pith
Dear Debian community,  We are researching the motivation factors of Open Source software programmers and would like to ask your cooperation in our large-scale research. The research is performed for the Amsterdam Business School of the University of Amsterdam. Your participation would consist