Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Frank Küster wrote: >> I do not understand why the Nybbles team mixed their good news about >> sarge with their foreseeably controversial plans or proposal for etch. >> I fear that we will have a huge, long flamewar. And many competent, >> active people will start coding implementations of alternatives to the >> Nybbles plan, alternatives that will allow us to make releases also of >> the SCC/tier-2 arches. >> >> I think all this discussion about etch should be delayed until sarge is >> out. Of course we would need a statement from the Nybbles team that >> they do not intend to make decicions, and not to settle facts before a >> thorough discussion has taken place - after the release.
Meanwhile, there have been statements on -vote, e.g. by aj in http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2005/03/msg00626.html ,---- | That said, I don't think any of the implementation has been started | yet, and it certainly won't be completed 'til sarge is released; so | there's plenty of time for further comments or tweaks or even | reinventions. `---- that make me confident that there will be time for discussion, an open discussion. > The fact that the release team now sees the light at the end of the > tunnel for the release of sarge means that now is the time we need to > begin planning for etch. Allowing unstable development to pick back up > after a release with no clear plan for the next release has been shown > time and time again to delay the next release by one to two *years*. I agree. > The rest follows from that. It follows from that that we should start the discussion, yes. But it doesn't follow that we had to start the discussion by sending a mail to -devel-announce that proposed a drastic change without consulting all parties involved, *and* that did not sound like a proposal, but a decision. The waste of resources follows from that, I fear. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer