Ac stable on our doorstep?

[Robert Kurowski]

2006/9/17, Marcin Król <hawk w limanowa.net>:
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> it or not. Because of that I'm asking all developers: do you think that
> current Ac main is ready to be released as stable? If not, why?

As for me it's stable enough.

> If I'll decide to release Ac now following things will happen:
> - kernel will be built from LINUX_2_6_16 branch
> - current Ac ready will be included too
> - Ac main will be permanently frozen on September 24th
> - ISOs will be ctreated using current bootdisks
>
> Ac security team...
> In worst case scenario Ac will be released before December. Its not that
> far from now. After that we will need to maintain updates. As I can see
> from CVS commit logs, not many developers care about security/general
> updates in Ac. I simply can't take care of that by myself. Therefore I'm
> asking: are there any volunteers for keeping Ac secure and up to date?
> If not, perhaps we should reconsider "always in developement" way of
> maintaining PLD?

Releasing is conditioned with decleration of keeping Ac up-2-date? I
think if there'll be will of updating Ac someone will do it, as it's
common in PLD ;) IMHO install isos are good becouse I can use them to
painless and fast install. I personally do not install PLD too often
(I did it maybe 10 times so far) but installing in batch-style form
RPMS stored on cd/dvd is far more better than chroot+net. Even if Ac
will die fast, having quite fresh install isos is good thing, better
than ancient Ra + bleeding edge development version.

> "stable == dead"?

I think stable shouldnt be goal as PLD is not really targeted for
users but rather some kind of side-effect. For me PLD is a great
framework to build "my linux". Becouse sometimes I experience some
hardware failures install iso snapshots are good. As mentioned above,
installing from cd/dvd is the way I prefer. Releasing stable (we can
call it "stable version") is mainly done for people willing to install
distro? isnt it?

> Everybody knows how Ra ended. We could say it was out of date the day it
> was released. I don't want Ac to end this way too. Thats why I'm open
> for all, even some major upgrades after releasing stable version.

Yes, release it. Just do it ;) Updates will come. If not? we'll end
with not perfect release nad keep going with new one. The good thing
is there'll be a release.

-- 
Robert 'koorek' Kurowski
JID: koorek w pld-linux.org