Jonathan
On 21 December 2010 17:39, Jonathan McDowell noodles@earth.li wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 09:50:46AM +0000, James Freer wrote:
They do indeed sit on the shoulders of giants,
Trouble with Debian is that it is so slow on releases apparently due to friction between developers.
As a Debian developer I think that's unfair. Debian releases when it's ready. Unfortunately with ~ 1000 developers there is a mixed idea of what ready means. Also I've heard both the argument (from users) that Debian needs to release more often, and that it releases too often. It's kinda hard to keep both groups happy.
"However, this lengthy and complex development style also has some drawbacks: the stable releases of Debian are not particularly up-to-date and they age rapidly, especially since new stable releases are only published once every 1 - 3 years. Those users who prefer the latest packages and technologies are forced to use the potentially buggy Debian testing or unstable branches. The highly democratic structures of Debian have led to controversial decisions and gave rise to infighting among the developers. This has contributed to stagnation and reluctance to make radical decisions that would take the project forward." [Distrowatch]
My comment was referring to this paragraph and what i gathered from reading numerous posts on forums. IF that is an unfair and unjust statement - it is the duty and responsibility of the debian community to raise the issue as it is damaging. I don't like what they write for several distros and i've written to a distro founder (another distro) in the past.
james