On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:58:33AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > What about freezing woody one week after releasing potato
> > and releasing it after no more than one month of freeze ???
Heh.
Note that powerpc and sparc autobuilders have deliberately been ignoring
woody (and I think arm autobuilding doesn't entirely exist yet, so they're
out of date too); note that there are large numbers of bugs being ignored
pending woody, and large numbers of new packages that haven't been tested
for woody yet. Compare the uninstallables counts:
potato woody
alpha 30 338
arm 85 2783
hurd-i386 586
i386 3 97
m68k 40 331
sparc 21 409
sparc64 183
powerpc 28 430
You really think we'll get all this fixed and spotless in a month?
It is to laugh.
Personally, I think Debian's outgrown the "develop / debug / test /
release" model at this point. There are too many arches to try to keep
in sync, too many packages to ensure are bugfree, too many independent
goals to work on, too many configurations to support if we try to do it
all in series: as soon as we've got B settled down and try to move onto
C, A breaks. We need, IMHO, more parallelisation, not just more pressure
to get things done faster and better and what not.
I'd strongly encourage people to hold their thoughts on how we should
handle releases until we've actually finished this one, ie, when we can
actually take some of the ideas everyone has into account. Write your
messages and all, but lets postpone them for a month and actually do
something rather than just talk about it this time.
> Another idea might be ajt's "testing" distribution. From what I've heard,
> that has a lot of promise for alleviating some of the problems; I'm interested
> to see what happens when it's integrated into the archives (I've heard this
> will happen after the woody release?)
^^^^^
current or potato. ie, it's ready and waiting to be in place *for* woody.
Cheers,
aj
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