Le Vendredi 7 Février 2003 19:51, John Goerzen a écrit : > I would like to try to offer a bit of insight > on what Debian has done right, what Debian has done wrong, and perhaps > explore some areas Debian can work together with the Mandrake > community in the future.
You 're welcome. > >> I also like their "package adoption" system: > >> http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ > > > > Package adoption is great, but, to orphan a package is not really seen as > > a good thing by others developpers. > > Very true. Debian uses this for two purposes: > > 1. A developer is still maintaining a package, but wants to stop > 2. A developer has stopped maintaining the package and wants to let > others know about it. Well, orphaned package need to be adopted before any work is done on it, that's right ? If so, why not put them in a special zone, where people can submit some changes, without having the burden of maintening it ? > > What about doing it the same way than Netbsd and FreeBSD. > > Debian is ported on a lot of processor, we can focus on a smaller subset. > > They have goals for each release in term of version of software, we can > > have more frequent releases, based on time. > > I'm not sure what the difference is here. Debian's release schedule > is, according to everyone, too long. No quibbles there. It's > nominally based on time, too. Well, I tought it was in term of software. For Woody, it was perl 5.6, Xfree4.0 and kernel 2.4, or something similar, I think. So, no features freeze until these are out and tested a lot. But, it is possible I was wrong. -- Mickaël Scherer
