Reading these news items in the latest DWN, one could be drawn to the conclusion that woody is dead. I would just like to know what other people who are more in the know think. Sometimes it makes me think, 'to hell with Debian, go with another distro that's got a future.' But I really think Debian does have a future.
Curtis Welcome to the fifth issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. The past week has been an exciting one. A lot of talk with regard to the upcoming release of woody took place on the [1]debian-devel list. This issue contains items by Tollef Fog Heen and Yooseong Yang, which are greatly appreciated. The mail version of this issue uses a new style for embedding links which was generated by a script provided by Aaron Schrab. Please let us know if it makes DWN easier to read or not. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/ Adrian Bunk Retired. Since the woody release is making only very little progress (if any), Adrian Bunk [22]decided to retire from the Debian project entirely, and has orphaned all of his packages. The current release process has led to very few motivation on Adrians side and he doesn't see his work honored in Debian in form of a new stable release in the forseeable future. 22. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0201/msg02160.html Addressing the Release. Anthony Towns posted a [23]roundup targetting the woody release. Basically he says that there is currently no real progress. There is absolutely no magic that can be done to make a bunch of buggy useless software acceptable as a Debian release. We shouldn't resign, though. Indeed, it is quite obvious what needs to be done: we need to fix these bugs. 23. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0201/msg00014.html
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