On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 16:54, Sascha Noyes wrote: > I agree with Warly here. People do not seem to notice that Mandrake has a > certain development philosophy: > > 1. Release every 6 months > 2. Include the latest stable versions of popular software, irrespective > whether it might be unpolished.
Yes, and their argument is that this is a *bad* development philosophy. It means Mandrake often release "stable" versions with very serious bugs. This is not a good thing. > This has always been the case with Mandrake, and that is why they also have > such a large following with "power-users" (not guru's but not complete > newbies). Anybody who thinks that the above two points are new has not been > around to see many of Mandrake's releases. I think if you want to get > Mandrake to change their policy (like the Debian-like 3-phase suggestion) you > are going to have to have pretty good arguments for why this would be better > (and not lead to eg. Debian-like outdatedness in the stable version) Debian's outdatedness in release versions has little to do with the stable / testing / sid split. Rather it's because they do a lot of work - they have to support many architectures, many more than Mandrake supports - and they have very long release cycles. You could certainly use the same structure on a much shorter release cycle. -- adamw
