Debian release team meeting minutes

Debian release team meeting minutes

On the general distro release topic, not not necessarily a suggestion for debian in particular, I think it would be neat to have a distro that worked like the Linux kernel is now done. Effectively, the "testing" phase would be about 2 months, and include only things that were necessary fixes or were already done before it started. That is, when sarge came out, etch would have a feature freeze, and everything proposed later would be for the next release. All of the actual work would be pushed into unstable, and "testing" would only be for testing the relationship of the parts of unstable believed, at the start of a cycle, to be working.

It could go even further, of course, but that starts to get a bit silly (and uses up names too fast): they could have etch only include replacing XFree86 with X.org, and try to get it done by the end of the month. It would be a plausible thing to get done (I've switched from XFree86 to X.org; it mainly involved changing the name of the config file and removing all of the junk that was no longer needed), and it wouldn't delay the release with other stuff in it noticably (both because a week over 18 months doesn't matter and because having a simple release coming out wouldn't block working on the more complicated stuff).