On 05/02/2011 12:10 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 01/05/11 at 23:46 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >>> Benefits for Debian: >>> - attract users who think that testing is only a development branch, and >>> want newer software than what one finds in stable. Those users are >>> likely to be rather advanced users (developers, free software >>> contributors), thus interesting to work with. Some of them could >>> become Debian contributors. And even if they don't, more users of >>> testing/rolling means more testers of the next stable release >>> [remember how the bug reporting rate of Ubuntu is higher than >>> Debian's -- some areas of Debian could use more testers]. >> >> >> I think those can use unstable, > > But unstable is a development branch not targeted at being used by > 'standard' users. >
I can also say exactly the same about testing ;) I don't think we can go too far with this argument. Regards, -- Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي http://dogguy.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dbe55f1.9070...@dogguy.org