On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 06:53:56PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Incidentally, where is the release process / requirements documented? > > There are some vague guidelines in the developer's reference, but as far > as I know it's mainly documented in the oral history of the mailing > lists. > > -- And therein lies the main flaw of debian. The process of determining when a distribution is ready should be based on some kind of quantitative measure. Also, once woody arrives on the scene as the next release a more vigorous revision process should be instituted via the pools mechanism which presumably will allow a more understandable upgrade cycle. Perhaps there should be a superstable, stable distributions? I don't think testing is a distribution that most users should be forced to use because stale...umm I mean stable is the official release. i'd love to try to come up with a `measure' of stability.. -walter
