On Wed, Jul 29 2009, Luk Claes wrote:
> Who would you like to propose a release cycle to the project if not > the Release Team? A proposal would have been absolutely appropriate, with discussions by various teams as to the best time to freeze. > To be clear the Release Team cannot just decide what the release cycle > will be, though we proposed a plan in the team's keynote at DebConf > and the plan was welcomed by the audience. There were some important > considerations though. The audience for the talk was what fraction of the developer set? > We do not plan to do a yearly release, we plan to have a release about > every 2 years while having a one time exception for next release by > freezing this December. Why? There are development plans underway by folks (and yes, I am one of them) where packages will be polished for release about a year from now -- and the short release cycle throws a monkey wrench into the works. Why was this not discussed before hand? Are we so beholden to canonical that we must slave our releases to their LTS? I thought they borrowed our code, not the other way around. > The main reason is that the Release Team hopes to now have the > momentum to make a time based freeze work. If we would delay, it will > very probably mean that many developers 'forget' about what the time > based freeze is about. If you want to get the developers behind your release schedule, keeping us in the loop is a better idea. As such, it seems to me you think that treating developers like mushrooms will have no impact on your precious release schedule. I think you might find that the release team can't make releases on its own. > The developers have had the opportunity and still have the opportunity > to get stuff done before the release. It's true that developers should > probably consider to already be careful about what to upload, but > there is still opportunity to do changes till the freeze. I see no reason for developers kept out in the cod to do so; really. While the release team might be constitutionally delegated to decide when to release on a whim, the developers are also constitutionally protected from having to do something they do not want to. manoj -- Sigmund Freud is alleged to have said that in the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry. Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org