On Thursday 06 March 2003 19:16, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > What about using the three tier approach of Debian? New stuff goes in > unstable, after a few weeks of qa, it goes into "stable Cooker" (that is, > testing), and then the releases are "stable." As it stands, Cooker at any > particular moment can be anywhere inbetween those three stages.
I guess I should have waited a few more minutes before replying, because you stated this alternative much more clearly and succintly than I did.... But I still think that the current Cooker system is actually useful. I have a Cooker-based workstation that's stable enough to rely on for all of my daily work. I have a server that I wouldn't put even a "stable Cooker" release on. I don't really have much need for something in between. It may be that I'm an anomaly, and many people would use that intermediate distribution; if so, it would probably be worth the extra effort to migrate to a three-tier approach. If not, it would be extra expense that may not buy anything useful. > That might allow more people to run Cooker "testing" even on production > systems, as they would know while there might be bugs, it generally > wouldn't ever be just plain broken. In such a situation, I'd probably opt > for testing over the stable release. According to the headers, you're using kmail 1.5, which I don't remember being the version in 9.0. If you're already using Cooker for your daily email use, doesn't that say something? (And if I'm wrong, please feel free to call me an idiot....)
