(Some comments with my external POV) On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Clint Adams wrote: > If you don't care about Debian 6.0 (codename "squeeze"), > please skip this release update.
Duh... everybody should care. Skip this. > Andreas Barth would like to sy that we have recently > discussed the situation of the release, and it looks > like we can pull the release off if we all do it > together. As you know, releasing Debian is a team effort. You're not a reporter that quotes what other people are saying. This should be using "we": “we discussed the release situation and it looks like...“ > eglibc 2.11 is being held up by serious hppa NPTL breakage, > and if you are interested in all the great new features and > performance enhancements, you might want to assist the hppa > porters. The sooner eglibc 2.11 can get into unstable, the > sooner any related bugs can be detected. Lucas Nussbaum has > done an archive rebuild[2] with eglibc 2.11, and few issues > were found, but there is no substitute for the thorough > testing that comes through dogfooding. Strangely I find that paragraph more effective (in terms of motivating people) than the rest ;-) > put into QA and release work, a freeze by the end of May > is not out of the question. You must define that date as a target (reaching it should make people proud of having helped in the process) and not as some sort of possibility. Otherwise, it's fine as a status update IMO. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100323071100.gb7...@rivendell
