Martin Michlmayr Re-elected Debian Project Leader 15
jaybonci@d.o writes "Congratulations to Martin Michlmayr on his re-election to Debian Project Leader (his platform). Another year of service, one that will hopefully see the release of Sarge."
I, (Score:2, Funny)
Feh, What can you do?
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Branden (Score:4, Interesting)
Thank you for your replies
Re:Branden (Score:5, Insightful)
But Branden is an important contributor to the project. Pretty much everyone recognizes that and appreciates it, but that respect and appreciation does not translate into votes. There's a political component to being Debian Project Leader that Branden just doesn't have.
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Hopefully? (Score:4, Funny)
Sarge? Hopefully?!
I been waitin' six years for the release of Sid !
Re:Hopefully? (Score:4, Informative)
I been waitin' six years for the release of Sid !
For those who don't know Debian well enough to get the joke, Sid is the name of the "unstable" distribution, where all new stuff goes. Sid will always be the name of unstable and Sid will never be released. Packages that have lived long enough in Sid without any serious bugs filed against them automatically move into "testing", which is currently called Sarge. When Sarge is ready it will be released and become "stable", at which point a new name will be chosen for "testing".
Sid, however, will always be Sid.
For completeness, there's one other distribution "experimental", which is where stuff that's too volatile for Sid goes. Since Sid is actively used by thousands as their standard desktop, it has to be fairly stable, despite the name "unstable". The rule for Sid is that only stable software can be put in it, so that any instability is just in the packaging and relationships with other packages. Experimental (which doesn't have a character name) contains software that is truly of questionable stability.
Re:Hopefully? (Score:2)
The remaining ones (including sarge) are release names. sarge is currently under development and testing, but will be released sometime or another
I actually think the naming system is good, and flexible. You can track whatever the most current stable release is, or a particular release, or even testing or unstable if you want. It's probably even easier to
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