On Sat 03 Feb 2018 at 10:37:34 (-0500), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 2/3/18, rhkra...@gmail.com <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Saturday, February 03, 2018 02:47:43 AM Michael Fothergill wrote: > >> On 2 February 2018 at 04:35, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > >> > Debian > >> > already has a place to test the latest and greatest (and most > >> > broken) versions of packages and it is not the stable release that > >> > new users are directed at. > >> > >> Do you mean that new users on average want to install testing etc rather > >> than stable? > > > > I shouldn't profess to speak for someone else, but I think he meant just the > > > > opposite. (I guess, to be fair, it could be read either way, but the > > context > > or something makes me favor my interpretation.) > > > I missed this the first go-round. My interpretation of Andy's > observation is that something cognitive about how certain pages read > *might* accidentally point new users toward.. unstable and/or testing?
It seems people need help in parsing that sentence. Because we're all computer-literate here, let's add gloss [] and some brackets {}: Debian already has a place to test the latest and greatest (and most broken) versions of packages [experimental/rc-buggy,] and it [this aforementioned place] is not the { stable release that new users are directed at }. I think Andy wrote a good summary, and it's a pity if people, accidentally or otherwise, dismiss it because they parse the last sentence strangely. Cheers, David.