On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:01:10PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >>> >>> Is anybody else interested in helping? Thoughts/comments? > >Yes, it's a project I'm already working on ;-) Is this project a >candidate for a new Debian Team?
I guess so, yes. :-) >> 2. Does it have to be called "jessie and a half"? (How much is the >> concept understood across users? Wouldn't it be a better idea to >> squeeze the "backports" concept into the name somehow?) > >Maybe something like jessie-fresh-unofficial? I'm definitely *not* thinking of saying this is "unofficial" - I'm wanting this to be blessed as an additional installation option here. >On 4 July 2016 at 13:13, Hideki Yamane <henr...@debian.or.jp> wrote: >> >> Just a comment. I don't have any objection for this proposal. >> >> However, not only half but also updates with some point is better >> to deliver value for users, I hope it'll be in Stretch cycle. >> >> Recently I've read "lean software development" and it's quite >> impressive for me. "deliver value to users" is one of the most >> important thing in Debian (it means "do continuous improvement >> for stable"), IMO. > >Agreed! Also, OpenSUSE has been doing this with their post-42.x >release model. Mind you, to the best of my knowledge Debian has >always cherry picked fixes and essential hardware enablement fixes for >the stable packages (eg: intel-microcode). This newly proposed Debian >project seems to be a more aggressive approach...but does it also have >a client machine focus to the exclusion of servers, or should it serve >both? I'm more concerned about easy installation on new "client" x86 machines at this point, and for arm64 machines in general as they've seen massive changes since we released jessie. I don't think x86 server machines are such an issue, but I'm open-minded if somebody wants to argue otherwise. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone
