Joey,
I can't take credit for the idea, it's been mentioned on -devel at least 5 times
in the past since slink was released. I'd avoid doing a "semi-stable" though.
But what we do is make Woody a, "Potato with the following updates". Call it a
point release seperate from the normal unstable. Basically, an extended frozen
period for packages that didn't make it into Potato due to bugs, as well as a
time to get the big release packages into the distribution with proper testing.
Other big changes can wait for after, but we don't want to RELEASE something we
can't feel comfortable with calling stable. And semi-stable may as well be an
image of either unstable Woody, or frozen Woody.
Dave Bristel
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:18:25 -0800
> From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: David Bristel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!
>
> David Bristel wrote:
> > The solution to this is that we ignore woody for the moment, and begin an
> > all
> > out effort to get the 2.4 kernel, XF4.0, and Apache 2.0 into Debian as
> > STABLE.
> > The work for these things can also incorporate the work needed to re-add the
> > packages that were removed because of bugs. I know people LOVE to work on
> > "unstable", and I don't recomend we delay potato's release, so this is the
> > alternative. We release potato when it's ready, then prepare a point
> > release
> > for the major packages. Call the maintenance release potato mk 2 or
> > something.
>
> Seems we've independently reached the same conclusion -- that's what I was
> going to post!
>
> I'd like to propose that we make a committment to getting an update to
> potato out within a month of the release of the 2.4 kernel or the release
> of potato, whichever comes last. (I did a similar thing for slink in a 3
> week time-frame, and so I think this is a reasonable time-frame.)
>
> This update would NOT be blessed as stable, it would be a semi-stable
> release with:
>
> - 2.4 kernel and support utilities
> - X 4.0 drivers (but probably just X servers, to minimize changes; Branden
> has huge reorganizations in mind for X)
>
> This would be a full Debian release, with a version number, boot floppies,
> CD images, etc, etc. After it ages for a few months, we may choose to call
> it stable but at first it would be called something that denotes it is
> semi-stable.
>
> Please speak up if you like this idea.
>
> --
> see shy jo
>
