On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Ed Szynaka wrote: > > > The problem that I see is that there is too much time between stable > > > releases. I think that shorter and much more regular time periods > > > between freezes is necessary. By fixing the number and date of freezes, > > > with say three or four a year, and letting everyone know long in advance > > > of the freeze it would allow developers to schedule when all bugs must > > > be removed by. Also the fact that the time period would be much shorter > > > would make changes between stable versions less drastic and therefore > > > easier to handle. > > > > How does this account for drastic changes to something like libc that > > might take weeks or months to shake out? >
Build daemons could take care of the 90% or so of packages that would just need a recompile. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>