On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:32:44PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: > > I do not understand why the Nybbles team mixed their good news about > > sarge with their foreseeably controversial plans or proposal for etch. > > I fear that we will have a huge, long flamewar. And many competent, > > active people will start coding implementations of alternatives to the > > Nybbles plan, alternatives that will allow us to make releases also of > > the SCC/tier-2 arches. > > > > I think all this discussion about etch should be delayed until sarge is > > out. Of course we would need a statement from the Nybbles team that > > they do not intend to make decicions, and not to settle facts before a > > thorough discussion has taken place - after the release. > > The fact that the release team now sees the light at the end of the > tunnel for the release of sarge means that now is the time we need to > begin planning for etch. Allowing unstable development to pick back up > after a release with no clear plan for the next release has been shown > time and time again to delay the next release by one to two *years*. > The rest follows from that.
And would a larger discussion at debconf'05 not have been more appropriate than handing done a couple of taken decision disguised as proposal ? It is not too late for this yet, but there needs to be a real discussion with real facts, and not just a list of resolution letting 8/11th of the project in the cold. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
