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Looking back at 2004
Looking back at 2004
Posted Dec 23, 2004 17:06 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137)Parent article: Looking back at 2004
LWN would like to apply a small patch to its 2004 predictions to fix a few bugs.
Hey, I like that concept! I wish I could do that with my estimated taxes. :-|
Increasingly, Debian offshoot distributions will handle the task of creating release-ready versions of that distribution.
I believe this would be a Good Thing for the Debian project - it would free up a lot of developers to work on more interesting things. Fixing other people's bugs has never been my idea of a good time.
I don't know if this will happen though. Debian puts a big emphasis on multi-platform support, and it would probably be very difficult to find people interested in producing stable releases for some of the more obscure platforms.
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Looking back at 2004
Posted Dec 24, 2004 11:13 UTC (Fri) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487) [Link]
I believe this would be a Good Thing for the Debian project - it would free up a lot of developers to work on more interesting things. Fixing other people's bugs has never been my idea of a good time.
I disagree: stable releases are necessary for any project, even if they are far and wide in between. It may be more interesting to work on cutting-edge stuff, but for some people things just need to work. And on most servers (and soon that would apply to desktops, too), cutting-edge stuff is not necessary, the crucial part is to have timely security updates that don't break things. Which is exactly what Debian/stable provides.
Looking back at 2004
Posted Dec 24, 2004 21:03 UTC (Fri) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
It may be more interesting to work on cutting-edge stuff, but for some people things just need to work. And on most servers (and soon that would apply to desktops, too), cutting-edge stuff is not necessary, the crucial part is to have timely security updates that don't break things. Which is exactly what Debian/stable provides.So does Ubuntu, but it's a lot nicer.