Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary
[Posted May 4, 2011 by ris]
From: |
| sean finney <seanius-AT-debian.org> |
To: |
| Lucas Nussbaum <lucas-AT-lucas-nussbaum.net> |
Subject: |
| Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary |
Date: |
| Tue, 3 May 2011 13:38:58 +0200 |
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| debian-devel-AT-lists.debian.org |
Hi Lucas,
I appreciate your effort to try and sum things up. However, I'd like
to raise the point that the discussion was about more than just having a
"rolling" and "user-oriented" testing release.
The feedback that started (or at least helped springboard) this massive
thread was that "when we're releasing, everything else grinds to a halt,
maybe it doesn't need to", followed by pondering whether there was a
better way to manage this. My initial proposal apparently smelled a bit
like rolling, which got out people from both the pro- and con- rolling
camps, and unfortunately it seems that a good deal of the discussion
ended up splintering off in that direction.
While rolling may be one[1] way of addressing the freeze blockage, it's
most likely not the only way to do so. Over the weekend I took out a
DEP to try and examine this underlying issue from a few different
angles, including ideas that are rolling-like as well as aproaches that may
be less so.
sean
[1] or, several, really, since there isn't just a single concrete rolling
implementation being proposed.