On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > On Thursday 22 July 2010 23:51:10 Don Armstrong wrote: > > Testing's primary purpose is as a staging ground for the next > > release; while it'd be nice to try to keep it working as a fully > > installable version all of the time, progress to the next release > > is more important than that. > > And that's exactly my point while such valuable people as Russ > Allbery wants to challenge that notion.
I have no argument against extending testing using CUT or similar, but it cannot come at the expense of preparation for the next stable release. [And indeed, while CUT proposes to provide a constantly installable version of Debian, it specifically allows dropping buggy packages from testing, precisely as we are doing now.] All of that said, I think there are enough people who are interested in extending testing to organize themselves and make it happen. [I for one don't have the time to do so myself, but I certainly have no problem making whatever changes to the BTS are necessary to make it all work.] Don Armstrong -- [On a trip back from collecting grass seeds in tropical bird stomachs and being thought by the customs agents to be transporting Marijuana.] "Anyone so square as to tell you they are transporting grass seeds is bound to be ok" -- Peter K. Klopfer _Seeds of Doubt_ Science 134:177 10 April 2009 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
