Re: DPLs : what do you think about ...
Ben Collins wrote:
> I honestly fail to see how you can't develop packages without unstable.
Look at the packages I'm developing. They cannot be developed without
immediate feedback from lots of users, the users are debian developers.
If I break debhelper, it affects over 40% of the packages in debian. I can't
wait months to find out about that.
> cycle. And I'm sure that there are some who are unable to keep up with
> this constant flow because of connection problems, events in their
> personal lives, etc...which they would be able to keep up with given this
> break.
If a develper wants to take a break and not upload to unstable during a
freeze, that's their perogative. But I don't see why their desires should
influence the rest of us wo want to continue to work on debian.
> Remember we are not bound by any release dates, why should we rush to have
> another full development cycle when such an easy change could improve what
> we are doing?
"Release early, release often" -- the Catherderal and the Bazaar. What
you're proposing breaks a central, key tenet of open source development, and
would, IMHO, kill debian.
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