Stefan Krueger schreef: > Hello Debianteam, > > I hope you understand my terrible english ;) > > It is the fixed release cycles, my opinion ist that 2years are too > short, because Debian is used more as a server operating system,
But Debian is not only for servers. > the people how would like an actuelly version of an program can use > Debian testing. Not well-tested enough for normal use by non-technical people. At the moment I believe more in backports. (I am sysadmin for both Debian desktops and servers) > I would make every 3years a feature freeze and every 1.5 years a > "stable-and-a-half", then the topicality also ensures version of > Debian (kernel, Xorg, etc). > > The old stable, must be supported for 6years, has been published > until the new version(testing to stable) > > I hope I could possibly give one food for thought ;) It would be nice to have a long support, but it is a lot of work. Is it really such a problem to upgrade your servers? Or is the real problem that your organisation or your customers do not understand that an upgrade is important? For me it is a problem that the support on the Mozilla products is so short.... http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#mozilla-security http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1753 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830 With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- http://www.vandervlis.nl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
