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Member since:2006-01-01
If they waited another year or two for an Etch release, bugs would *still* be getting filed at that time. It would have been pretty amazing if the bug reports had just stopped after November, wouldn't it? So I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. That they should wait until there are no bug reports to release?
The key words in my post were "real-world testing". If you release with very up-to-date software, you get can't get much real-world testing. And if there's more real-world testing, software tends to be less up-to-date because the real-world testing takes time. Real-world testing allows users to report problems and if the reported problems get fixed, you get a more solid release. To sum up: delays are not necessarily all bad, they can increase the quality of the release.
Secondly, release plans for next week or no, it's nowhere near too late for the "Fat Lady" to come down with a nasty case of laryngitis.
Yes, anything is possible. We'll see how it goes.
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2005-07-24
Two comments.
If they waited another year or two for an Etch release, bugs would *still* be getting filed at that time. It would have been pretty amazing if the bug reports had just stopped after November, wouldn't it? So I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. That they should wait until there are no bug reports to release?
Secondly, release plans for next week or no, it's nowhere near too late for the "Fat Lady" to come down with a nasty case of laryngitis.
All it would take would be for someone to reread the GPL, thinking that they had noticed something that nobody else had noticed before, and posting their thoughts to debian-legal. The resulting uncertainty, hysteria, and consequent flame fest, could easily hold off the actual release for at least a year... because Debian is Debian. ;-)