On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:54:19PM +0200, J�r�me Marant wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:20:22PM +0200, Sven wrote: > > > I discussed a bit with anthony, and this woody release process is really, > > really a strange thing. i don't really understand how things are going to work > > out, and what will be moved from sid to woody, and i just hope that there will > > not result catastrophic things about that. > > It is not only strange, it is a complete mess and confusion. > You're quite lucky ; not everyone get replies from the release > manager.
Yes, altough it was not a really usefull answer, nothing about the sid -> woody -> release delay. > As long as you let people upload new versions of packages, there > is always a risk to break woody with new RC bugs. It is up to the responsaibkuty of the managers. I personnaly decided to 'freeze' my packages, And backport fixes instead of using the new cvs version (of advi for example) > IMHO, testing is not ready for production since there is nothing > in to handle releases consistently. Hope things will work out well for our reputation. > Freezing the old way would have been far more efficient. > But well ... But it delays lot the release (it was almost 4 month freeze last time, but i think they should have waited at least for the packages to go into testing.) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
