On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:47:36 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 10 aug 12, 17:36:15, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Yes, and here we had a problem with communication: users were not aware >> about this "issue" until they've read it from external sources (blogs, >> magazines, etc...). I'm susbscribed to Debian News and Debian Announce >> (and now added debian-devel and debian-devel-anounce) in a hope of >> trying to track these changes/decisions very closely because I'm >> interested on them but I wonder if this is just an impossible goal to >> achieve unless normal users subscribe to all of the development mailing >> lists. > > As I see it, if one wants to follow Debian Development they should be > subscribed to at least -devel-announce, any specific mailing list and > possibly also -devel.
>From -devel-announce I recall this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/08/msg00000.html And notice the "known issues": * CD1 without a network mirror isn't sufficient to install a full desktop environment. But how to interpret that? There's no indicaction that the issue is being actively discussed elsewhere or nothing that can make the user to even imagine a new desktop default is in place :-) As I've been recently following "-devel" I can't tell if this was mentioned here. And for -boot and -cd, I can't see a strong reason to follow them, given that I have no direct relation with those projects (I'm neither a developer nor have opened any bug against them) and can't really track all mailing lists for every single project, there are many! Instead, I would have expected that important changes (like this) are broadcasted to some "key" mailing list (such as -devel-announce or -news). > If one only cares about major changes and/or stable releases than > -announce, -news *and* reading the Release Notes is enough. These are in my "to-track" list since I installed my first Debian :-) And thanks Andrei, for your feedback. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k08gsi$fer$1...@dough.gmane.org