On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 06:01:31PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Michael Prokop: > > I do not agree with: > > > > > stable --> ancient and full of bugs, but patched > > > testing --> less ancient, less bugs > > > unstable --> current and basically stable* (grml) > > Nor do I. The Debian model is to produce stable with as few extant > bugs possible. This is for the server market. Testing is just the > next candidate for stable, once the release team signs off on it.
Right, agred. > That's also the best place for a newbie to be. I disagree with that. Testing might be broken once upon a time, and when you're not able to fix this you don not belong on Testing. Stable is the best place for a newbie to be. There is no Debian distributions for not knowledgeable newbies who want to have the latest software. > Helping to test testing helps Debian produce sable. Yes, but bug reports from newbies are seldomly useful. Which is no offense to the newbie; isolating and reporting bugs is a form of art. > For those more adventurous or less sensitive to potential bugs, > unstable is available. Unstable is expected to be buggy; that's where > new features and fixes are implemented. Testing is expected to be buggy as well. > That said, Debian's unstable is more stable than many distros' > stable release. Disagreed here. Especially in the period right after a stable release, unstable's breakages can be horrible. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
