Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:02:20PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> Though Martin 'Joey' Schulze as stable release manager presents lists of >> packages that are accepted into the next stable point release on a >> regular basis, they normally are not released "roughly two months after >> the last update" (which is the official plan). >> >> Do you know why this doesn't work as planned? What would you do to >> make regular point releases possible? > I think the first thing to note is that irregular point releases aren't > a big deal -- since they are almost solely security updates that are > already available via security.debian.org, and TTBOMK there haven't > been any installer updates to either woody or sarge.
They're not really important as technical upgrade, but they give the impression that Debian releases something - after our last painful release cycle, many people have decided not to use Debian because of our (seemingly) slow development. Stable point releases are a nice touch to get a bit of trust back. > That means point releases get a fairly low priority when other things > are going on, and if those are the only concerns, that's what it > *should* mean. I have to admit that I don't know what other stuff was going on in the last 2 years, the ftp-team is not really transparent. But if the workload is too high for its current members, it might be a good idea to add other people to the team. > Anyway, I already partially blogged about what I think will improvement, > > http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2005/11/26#2005-11-26-niv2 > > which is to change the queue structure so that uploads don't enter > proposed-updates until approved by the SRM. That allows rejections to > happen immediately, rather than only when a point release happens, > and reduces the work that has to happen at a point release pretty > significantly too. After following the thread on here on -vote, I have the impression that this fixes something that's not a problem - as it doesn't reduce the work needed to be done by the ftp-team, which seems to be the current bottleneck. Marc -- Fachbegriffe der Informatik - Einfach erklärt 25: Multithreaded Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen. (Kristian Köhntopp)
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