On 19/03/13 at 23:52 +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Hi! > > Lucas wrote in his plateform: > > For example, we have been providing a fairly good rolling release for > almost 13 years with testing, but we totally fail at advertising it as > something supported and usable by end users. > > Even if a dedicated team is supposed to care about security in > testing [1], the dedicated mailing-list [2] has not seen an announcement > since February 2011. > > Dear candidates, do you think it would be wise to advertise `testing` as > a usable distribution to our users given that state of affairs? Given > that our security support for stable is already not as best as it could > be, do you think we should encourage volunteers to be more active in > security support for testing? Do you have ideas on how to attract more > volunteers to the dull, hard, and sometimes boring tasks of taking care > of security issues in Debian?
First, having security support for testing with the same (high :) ) quality as for stable would be great, of course. But I don't think that this is a prerequisite for advertising testing as a rolling release. - We would need to state clearly how security support for testing happens (mostly through unstable, etc.) - We could discourage the use of 'testing' on multi-user systems or Internet servers. it's quite likely that the main use of testing will be desktops/laptops anyway. Note that some successful distros have more restricted/focused security support: - (AFAIK) the Ubuntu Security team only issues updates for packages in the 'main' component. the 'universe' component is (supposed to?) be supported by the community. - (AFAIK) Linux Mint relies on Ubuntu's security support Finally, I think that it's a chicken and egg problem, too: if we advertise testing as a recommended alternative for users, it is more likely that people will be interested in helping with its security support. Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130323165401.gb8...@xanadu.blop.info