Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le lundi 02 mai 2011 à 19:31 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> To those users that want newer software my next question would be "What >> software?". My feeling there is that it is only some software, allways >> the same software and used for the same use case

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Samuel Thibault wrote: >Lucas Nussbaum, le Mon 02 May 2011 13:31:31 +0200, a écrit : >> How we deal with freezes is the hard point in this discussion. I'm >> personnally in favor of the "freeze rolling for 3 months, then fork >> frozen and unfreeze rolling" plan, though it has some problems too >>

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 Thread sean finney
Hi Lucas, On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 02:59:04PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I think that one of the conclusions of the discussion from the last few > days is that the freeze "blockage" has very good features that many of > us are not willing to give up, like the ability to focus the DDs on > worki

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 03 mai 2011 à 10:33 +0200, Milan P. Stanic a écrit : > IMHO Debian is for the people who understand computers and are willing > to invest some time to learn and "user friendly" distributions are for > other more or less laymen people. Certainly not. Debian is the universal Operating Syst

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 Thread Russ Allbery
"Milan P. Stanic" writes: > I don't think that the Debian can beat Ubuntu in popularity on > desktop/laptop field (not yet) and IMHO it should not even try that. > IMHO Debian is for the people who understand computers and are willing > to invest some time to learn and "user friendly" distributi

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 03/05/11 at 13:38 +0200, sean finney wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > I appreciate your effort to try and sum things up. However, I'd like > to raise the point that the discussion was about more than just having a > "rolling" and "user-oriented" testing release. > > The feedback that started (or at lea

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Cristian Henzel [2011-05-03 10:51]: > > Er, no. Those of us using Debian in corporate environments desire high > > stability, long-term support and defined, not to short, periods between > > releases. The 2 years with the security support for currently about 4 > > years from the release date on

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 Thread sean finney
Hi Lucas, I appreciate your effort to try and sum things up. However, I'd like to raise the point that the discussion was about more than just having a "rolling" and "user-oriented" testing release. The feedback that started (or at least helped springboard) this massive thread was that "when we'

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 09:47, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Cristian Henzel [2011-05-03 08:12]: > > I'm a bit new to Debian but just wanted to add my $0.02 to this discussion, > > since it's something that I personally find very interesting. > > Firstly, I think the question should be, "which users wo

Re: Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 Thread Cristian Henzel
> Er, no. Those of us using Debian in corporate environments desire high > stability, long-term support and defined, not to short, periods between > releases. The 2 years with the security support for currently about 4 > years from the release date on is good if even a bit on the short side. I was

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Cristian Henzel [2011-05-03 08:12]: > I'm a bit new to Debian but just wanted to add my $0.02 to this discussion, > since it's something that I personally find very interesting. > Firstly, I think the question should be, "which users would be targeted by a > rolling release?" I don't think ther

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Cristian Henzel
Hello, I'm a bit new to Debian but just wanted to add my $0.02 to this discussion, since it's something that I personally find very interesting. Firstly, I think the question should be, "which users would be targeted by a rolling release?" I don't think there are many people out who have the need

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 02 mai 2011 à 19:31 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > To those users that want newer software my next question would be "What > software?". My feeling there is that it is only some software, allways > the same software and used for the same use case: KDE / Gnome / > Multimedia stuff

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pierre Habouzit writes: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 01:31:31PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Since I already sent too many mails in the 'rolling' discussion, I >> decided to send one more. Here is an attempt at a summary of what was >> said so far. It might not be complete, it's proba

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:44:11PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Jan Hauke Rahm [2011-05-02 18:31]: > > > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:27:02PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > > * Jan Hauke Rahm [2011-05-02 18:23]: > > > > > > > Not that I don't understand your asking for reasons but... does

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Jan Hauke Rahm [2011-05-02 18:31]: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:27:02PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > * Jan Hauke Rahm [2011-05-02 18:23]: > > > > > Not that I don't understand your asking for reasons but... doesn't look > > > having a large user base look somehow appealing to you? I thin

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:27:02PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Jan Hauke Rahm [2011-05-02 18:23]: > > > Not that I don't understand your asking for reasons but... doesn't look > > having a large user base look somehow appealing to you? I think many DDs > > care for such since working on Deb

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Jan Hauke Rahm [2011-05-02 18:23]: > Not that I don't understand your asking for reasons but... doesn't look > having a large user base look somehow appealing to you? I think many DDs > care for such since working on Debian brings more fun if someone's > actually using it. Why do you believe t

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 02:42:05PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 01:31:31PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since I already sent too many mails in the 'rolling' discussion, I > > decided to send one more. Here is an attempt at a summary of what was > > said

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, May 02, 2011 07:31:31 AM Lucas Nussbaum wrote: ... > How we deal with freezes is the hard point in this discussion. I'm > personnally in favor of the "freeze rolling for 3 months, then fork > frozen and unfreeze rolling" plan, though it has some problems too > (it is not clear whether th

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 01:31:31PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > Since I already sent too many mails in the 'rolling' discussion, I > decided to send one more. Here is an attempt at a summary of what was > said so far. It might not be complete, it's probably a bit biased, but I > hope th

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lucas Nussbaum, le Mon 02 May 2011 13:31:31 +0200, a écrit : > How we deal with freezes is the hard point in this discussion. I'm > personnally in favor of the "freeze rolling for 3 months, then fork > frozen and unfreeze rolling" plan, though it has some problems too > (it is not clear whether the

Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, Since I already sent too many mails in the 'rolling' discussion, I decided to send one more. Here is an attempt at a summary of what was said so far. It might not be complete, it's probably a bit biased, but I hope that it's still better than nothing. When replying, please try to focus on sp