FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

From: Joel Konkle-Parker (jjk3_at_msstate.edu)
Date: 02/29/04

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Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:37:12 -0600

    I asked Branden Robinson a question about his DPL platform, and got a
    pretty good response, so I thought I'd post it here.

    Question:

    While I am in no 'official' position to request this (I'm just a random
    interested user), I'd really appreciate you guys including some stuff
    about the current release cycle, the ongoing delays in releasing Sarge,
    and possible ideas on how to improve the situation in future releases.

    Reply:

    I do mention the issue in my platform, but I have no specific
    recommendations to make at this time. If elected, I will work with
    Anthony Towns, Colin Watson, and Steve Langasek as best I can to
    identify the problems they perceive, and collaboratively come up with
    solutions.

    There are several hard problems that work together to make releasing
    Debian difficult. Also, the rewrite of our installer technology has put
    a unique load on this release cycle.

    It's worth reviewing Anthony's mail to debian-devel-announce in
    December, and Colin's last week, to get an idea of some of the
    challenges they've had to face. The fact that approximately 6% of our
    archive fails to meet bare minimum expectations leads me to believe that
    we may want to inaugurate a special process for orphaning such packages.

    Feel free to repost this reply publicly. 

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Joel Konkle-Parker
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