making a polished release (Re: when hoary final will be released?

[Tony Arnold]

I'm curious about what this release really means! Does it mean that bugs
will no longer be fixed except for security related issues? Or does it
just mean new features, or versions of packages with new features will
not be added to the distro?

Having said that, a policy of no release until all bugs have been fixed
means you will never release anything stable. This is what has plagued
the Debian distro so far as I can see.

It would be useful to know if minor bugs will be fixed after the release
though, or if it is purely security fixes.

Regards,
Tony.

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:02 +0200, Philippe Landau wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:55:00AM +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> >>Yeah but that's just a 6 month old planning ! Right now there are many
> >>little things that could benefit 3 more weeks of development, so why
> >>release a "rough" version, when 3 more weeks of work (until late april),
> >>could possibly sort some little things out.... is it all for the sake of
> >>sticking to this planning ?? God, that's scary :o(((
> > 
> > Yes, it was planned six months in advance, just as the work to be done was
> > planned in advance.
> > 
> > Hoary is quite solid, and we intend to produce a high-quality release by the
> > end of this week.  I wouldn't characterize it as "rough" at all.
> > 
> > Drastically changing our release plans at the last minute, for any reason,
> > rather defeats the purpose of a time-based release schedule.
> > 
> > In short: Don't Panic, everything is OK.
> how many bugs are still unresolved,
> how many of those are you planning to resolve in the last two days now
> and is there a risk that bugs solved in the last minute
> cause new bugs that will plague other users ?
> 
> kind regards     philippe
> 
> 
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