PR work (was: Question to all candidates about stable point releases)

2006-03-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060308 09:09]: > I know that some non-Debian people actually ask questions like "I > heard Debian has split and is dead, what will happen in the future?" > From time to time, just because Debian's PR work sucks so much. Any hints, ideas and feedb

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Why ? When you look back at the history of debian-announce (check 1998 for > example), we used to use that list much more than currently. Yes I know. I'm a big fan of debian-announce in that period. Currently though it's a moderated list with a quite limited set of posting

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006, Joey Hess wrote: > The main annoying thing about announcing installer betas is that it doesn't > seem entirely proper to post them to debian-announce, and posting to Why ? When you look back at the history of debian-announce (check 1998 for example), we used to use that list m

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 13:37, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > How about instead dominating the news tickers by reporting more > noteworthy news? "Debian launches beta of new graphical installer" is a > very noteworthy news item IMHO. Compare what really happened when g-i > had its first test rel

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Joey Hess
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > How about instead dominating the news tickers by reporting more > noteworthy news? "Debian launches beta of new graphical installer" is a > very noteworthy news item IMHO. Which will be announced as such once we have a graphical installer that's in beta, which we don

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:09:01AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why would the existence of sarge point releases inspire confidence in > > our release cycle? > > Because the announcement title reads "Debian GNU/Linux $foo > updated". Sounds g

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-08 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:18:32AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: [... stable point releases ...] >> They're not really important as technical upgrade, but they give the >> impression that Debian releases something - after our last painful >> relea

Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases

2006-03-07 Thread Steve Langasek
[M-F-T set appropriately] On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:18:32AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Anthony Towns 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 ar