On 3 February 2018 at 17:24, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> 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 }. > Thanks for posting this. It is helping me to better understand this bit of Andy's post. > > 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. > I don't think we are trying to dismiss it, we just didn't understand what he had actually said. But you have helped here. Cheers MF > > Cheers, > David. > >