On 19 Jan 2001, John Galt wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Bill Wohler wrote: > > > If the stability of stable is 10 and the stability of unstable is 1, > > how would you rate the testing distribution? (This might be a useful > > metric to post on the Debian site to help Debian users decide which > > distribution is for them.) > > 5-7. Packages may change daily, but have (some of the) bugs worked out. > Extremely bleeding edge software won't make it in to testing, because of > the requirements to move a package from unstable to testing include > usability on all architectures and some other things that imply letting it > cook a little longer. If unstable is raw, and stable is well done, call > testing rare to medium rare. >
I've been tracking testing every day or two since its inception and so far (fingers crossed) everything has worked flawlessly. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical essays: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ "The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably absurd. It is the chief occupation of mankind." - H.L. Mencken
