Hello, On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Gustavo Franco<[email protected]> wrote: > Otavio, let me make it clear for all readers that you're talking on > behalf of debian installer team. > > I'm sure d-i team is very important to RM team. Communication is far > from being a strong quality of this project, with that in mind could > you please try to dissociate a little from the whole thing and raise > points against a time-based release freeze from d-i team point of > view?
I think that time-based freezes are good to allow people to plan for it and be sure that everything are is shape when it comes. >From d-i POV I think a time-based freeze is going to help us to be able to plan ahead, and push other teams for the same. The current timeline can be a hard one for us depending on what the other teams are planning to do during the time up to the freeze. To make easier for people to understand why d-i sometimes takes longer to release then expected here goes a view about what d-i depends on to a release to happen. We need to coordinate with: - d-i team (of course) - RM team (due migrations, blocks, and like) - kernel team (to get bugs fixed and coordinate uploads to fit the schedule) - debian-cd team (media and package set planning due space restrictions) - GNOME team (due their meta-packages and space restrictions and libraries that we use in d-i) - KDE team (due meta-packages and space restrictions) - ftpmasters (to process packages and migrate installer) So it is quite difficult to know right now if we'll be able to make it in time; we depends on a lot of people and coordination to make it happen. Our current plan is to release Alpha 1 as soon as possible and then get a better view of our current stability status. We will then focus in stabilizing all the installer due the short time for the freeze. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
