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Author Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
Sven Luther

2005-03-20, 7:48 am

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 04:19:03AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:43:26PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
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> If the proposal already gives porters the option to freeze ("snapshot")
> unstable to do their own releases, in what sense is this "sacrificing"
> architectures? It sounds to me like it's exactly what you've always wanted,
> to eliminate testing from the release process...


Because this means that all the job you do for testing has to be redone on a
per-arch basis without reason, and you perfectly know how much work that is.

And this means that the porter have less time to do their real job, which
means an additional push to the ports in question into an early grave.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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