On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:33:24PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> It may sound a bit radical, but core points have been mentioned in the > >> thread already. I suggest to do it in a more radical way: > >> > >> - unstable lockdown in the freeze > >> - drop Testing and concentrate on work instead of wasting time on > >> synching stuff. This eliminates the need for testing-security. See > >> the last part of the paper for details. > > > > Doing this would result in many users who currently run testing fall > > back to stable + backports or switch to another distro (ubuntu being a > > likely candidate), which in turn, would result in less bugreports and a > > less stable distribution. > > Very few bug reports from testing users are of any value at all. They > usually either report some transient dependency problem that the > maintainer can't fix anyway, or report something that has already been > fixed in the unstable package.
The true solution is a multi-release BTS, not dropping testing. And being maintainer/uploader of quite a good number of packages, I can say those cases of testing-only problems is a minority. We have also reports which are (yet now) stable-only, for what I can see. A proper BTS implementation for that could help in tracking things appropriately. -- Francesco P. Lovergine
