Questions for candidate Walther

2006-03-16 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi Jonathan! You might remember my questions from last year[0] regarding the release process and Xouvert. As I indicated to you, I do not feel your answers were in any satisfactory: I still feel quite strongly that the 0.2 release of Xouvert never occurred, and that the 0.1 release was a month

Re: Questions for candidate Walther

2005-03-08 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:19:28AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Please explain how you reconcile this claim with the periodic announcements from the release team stating that Debian is currently missing key bits of architecture that prevent us from releasing sarge. The OpenBSD six-month cycle is

Re: Questions for candidate Walther

2005-03-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:22:09AM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:19:28AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Since we still have a previous stable release, the six month release cycle means our current stable release will be released as the new release if necessary.

Re: Questions for candidate Walther

2005-03-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Matthew Garrett wrote: Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I committed to working toward a six-month cycle. As DPL, I have no desire to act unilaterally. Once a sufficient number of us are inspired with the right vision, things will just happen. As DPL, my job is to

Re: Questions for candidate Walther

2005-03-08 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:46:45PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: A 6 month release cycle would not go down well with many users unless we have a much longer support cycle. How have you ensured that the security team will be able to support 3 or 4 releases

Re: Questions for candidate Walther

2005-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, for the security team, I think it's fair to ask users to upgrade=20 their distribution. If we don't assume that, then why don't we support=20 debian 1.0 anymore ??? It's fair to ask users to upgrade, but it's not fair to ask them to do so every 6

Re: Questions for candidate Walther

2005-03-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:42:17PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: It's fair to ask users to upgrade, but it's not fair to ask them to do so every 6 months. Many organisations will want to spend 6 months testing a new release before rolling it out. I've no objection to releases every 6 months