| Brian Nelson 2004-07-23, 5:53 pm |
| Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com> writes:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
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> Short release cycles are not good. IMHO, Debian should aim for release
> cycles not shorter than one year and not too much over two years. The
> entire point of stable, AFAIK, is its code stability. When one installs
> a distribution on a server or production machine, then it is not very
> disirable to update that every few months (of course, security updates
> are a different story).
Is it better to make small scale, manageable upgrades on a production
server every 6 months, or to wait 2+ years and make an absolutely
massive upgrade in which you're jumping from 2-3 year old software to
current software?
I think it's getting nearly impossible to upgrade between Debian stable
releases due to the huge amount of changes. I would *much* rather see
stable releases every 6 months.
As it stands right now, unstable is IMO a superior distribution for
production servers (and any other type of box, really) over stable,
which is a pretty sad state...
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