On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 02:41:21PM +0200, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: > Heya, > > As announced on dda [RT1], we want to get an impression when releasing > Squeeze is feasible. We have proposed a (quite ambitious) freeze in December > 2009, and some developers have noted that their planned changes wouldn't be > possible in this time frame. So, to find out when releasing would work for > most people, it would be great if you could answer the following questions: >
> * Which major upstream releases of Mozilla/Xulrunner-based software are > expected in the next two years? Which of those are material for Debian > stable, which might be a bit flaky? firefox 3.6 is currently scheduled for december 2009; i think it would be worthwhile to get that in before freeze even if its not yet final at that point; this would help to get a bit longer upstream security support and would make debian more modern. Also it will probably get to final during freeze. Mozilla does not have any 2 years plans that one could rely on. Last I know is the general goal to target a ~9 month cycle, but with usual approach to release when ready (so 3.5 took 12 month). > > * How much time do you usually need from a new upstream release to a > stable Debian package in unstable? This is hard to guess as you dont know up-front how much porting will be required. Also I cannot speak for debian xulrunner/firefox maintainers here. > > * How many "big" transitions will the upcoming changes cause? When should > those > happen? Can we do something to make them easier? Same here ... we dont really know in advance. p.s. CC me ... not subscribed iirc. - Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org