Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette josselin.moue...@ens-lyon.org 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

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 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

2011-05-03 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Cristian Henzel cri...@b3r3.info [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

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 Milan P. Stanic
On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 09:47, Martin Wuertele wrote: * Cristian Henzel cri...@b3r3.info [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

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

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Cristian Henzel cri...@b3r3.info [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

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 least helped

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Milan P. Stanic m...@arvanta.net 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

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 System,

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 working on

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 (it is not

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

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

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 that

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 the

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 so far. It

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Jan Hauke Rahm j...@debian.org [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

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 j...@debian.org [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

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Jan Hauke Rahm j...@debian.org [2011-05-02 18:31]: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:27:02PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: * Jan Hauke Rahm j...@debian.org [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

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 j...@debian.org [2011-05-02 18:31]: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:27:02PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: * Jan Hauke Rahm j...@debian.org [2011-05-02 18:23]: Not that I don't understand your asking for

Re: Debian rolling: tentative summary

2011-05-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pierre Habouzit madco...@madism.org 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,

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 for