Re: Preparing the Release / Freezing potato
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> Martin Schulze wrote:
> > . Our boot-floppies are not ready yet. Freezing the distribution
> > without working boot-floppies will extend the freeze time which
> > would be a very bad idea. Adam di Carlo today told me that he
> > doesn't believe that our boot-floppies will be read before
> > January. (Since I haven't been able to work on them I can't say
> > anything about that.)
>
> We've already done successful (nfs!) installs with the potato boot floppies,
> though there are of course glitches.
Mssr Schultz misinterpreted my comments. We *do* have working
boot-floppies now, although they are not yet feature complete. There
are many critical features which aren't yet implemented (task
selection, automatic CD detection and apt's sources.list
configurator). I think we can get a feature complete boot-floppies in
2-3 weeks.
> > Therefore I propose to postpone the freeze (and the release) for at
> > least two months, hoping to get the FHS issue, Incoming and
> > boot-floppies resolved.
>
> I would much rather go to a slushy freeze now and make it a more solid
> freeze when some of these issues have had time to be worked on more.
> Delaying the freeze is just going to let other issues develop.
Well, I don't know what slushy freeze means.
The question is whether you want a short freeze or a long freeze. If
you want a short freeze, then we're kinda getting into hot water with
the whole christmas/new years vacation coming up. Furthermore, as
pointed out, there are a number of issues which would prevent a freeze
now from being very successful.
However, tactically, maybe Richard is threatening to freeze in a week
or so just to motivate people to work on RC bugs.
--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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