Re: infomagic
> You know, I don't mean to rain on your parade too
> much, but I've read 2
> messages from you on different subjects talking
> about Potato being
> released "soon"...
>
> Let me start by saying whoever told you this was
> POSSIBLE is on crack.
> Why can we not release "soon"?
>
> * Our boot disks don't work anymore
> * We need to fix the cdrom layout
> * Potato's perl is inconsistant, at best
> * We have almost THREE HUNDRED release critical
> bugs that must be fixed
> prior to release
> * The archive maintainers haven't had time to
> process the manual stuff
> in incoming for what feels like ages but is
> probably more like a
> couple of weeks
> * dinstall seems to be broken/breaking
> * Our mirrors are out of sync
> * We need a reasonable testing period after we've
> fixed the above
>
>
> To everyone expecting a September release, WAKE UP!
> It's NOT going to
> happen. It's NOT possible, not that soon. I think
> if we shoot for having
> it out by the holidays it could be done, however
> we've seen what happens
> if it's not done by December---everyone goes on
> vacation and nothing gets
> done until February. =p
>
I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong idea. I knew damn well that a
september release had a snowball's chance in hell. However someone out
there is posting debian vaporware for commerical distribution, I just
meant to report what I see. Myself, I'm hoping to see 2.2 before Y2K
(please tell me that this at least is possible).
===
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