On 3 February 2018 at 17:24, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 03 Feb 2018 at 10:37:34 (-0500), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> > On 2/3/18, rhkra...@gmail.com <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Saturday, February 03, 2018 02:47:43 AM Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > >> On 2 February 2018 at 04:35, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote:
> > >> > Debian
> > >> > already has a place to test the latest and greatest (and most
> > >> > broken) versions of packages and it is not the stable release that
> > >> > new users are directed at.
> > >>
> > >> Do you mean that new users on average want to install testing etc
> rather
> > >> than stable?
> > >
> > > I shouldn't profess to speak for someone else, but I think he meant
> just the
> > >
> > > opposite. (I guess, to be fair, it could be read either way, but the
> > > context
> > > or something makes me favor my interpretation.)
> >
> >
> > I missed this the first go-round. My interpretation of Andy's
> > observation is that something cognitive about how certain pages read
> > *might* accidentally point new users toward.. unstable and/or testing?
>
> It seems people need help in parsing that sentence. Because we're all
> computer-literate here, let's add gloss [] and some brackets {}:
>
> Debian already has a place to test the latest and
> greatest (and most broken) versions of packages
> [experimental/rc-buggy,]
> and it
> [this aforementioned place]
> is not the { stable release that new users are directed at }.
>
Thanks for posting this. It is helping me to better understand this bit
of Andy's post.
>
> I think Andy wrote a good summary, and it's a pity if people,
> accidentally or otherwise, dismiss it because they parse the last
> sentence strangely.
>
I don't think we are trying to dismiss it, we just didn't understand what
he had actually said.
But you have helped here.
Cheers
MF
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
