In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Adam Di Carlo wrote: >> Geeze, I'm not quite sure what you're going for. Are you lobbying to >> have a 2.1rX which include 2.2 updates?
>Um yes. Did you miss my post to debian-devel? Yes I did. I can either read debian-devel, or get some real work done. I choose to skip debian devel for now. Can you please direct release-related info to debian-release? Are you on that list? >Everyone I've talked to it >seems in favor of it and I have the support of the stable relese manager, >Vincent Renardias. Oh, excellent, Vincent was announced. Cool. >summary straight out of DWN. (And I'm not blowing my own horn here, someone >else wrote it. :-) > > Joey Hess proposed > (http://debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9908/msg00604.html) a > major update to slink (Debian 2.1). Under the proposal, major packages > that have been tested for 2-4 months will be incoporated into slink. > Hopefully, this experiment will help cut down on Debian's future release > cycles. Response so far as been largely positive, and work is underway. Eh... Please try to coordinate a bit here, someone. Has debian-cd been bonked about this? How about the porters? Your idea w.r.t. stable update is good, although I think you should move more conservatively. I don't know that you've considered the problems which this "mini-freeze" are going to create for all those folks who should be discussing all this now on debian-release. :) >> If so, I could get behind that, but I am a little sketical about it -- >> I would want to get some test data about how much better kernel 2.2 >> does for folks trying to install Debian. > >That's fine. I also posted to debian-testing. Anyway, the logical first step >is clearly to make the disks. Yup, which I much appreciate! -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
