PLD 2.1 again

[Bartosz Taudul]

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 12:37:17AM +0200, Marcin Król wrote:
> Ra is Radium, atomic number 88
Ra is an egyptian deity.

> Th is Thorium, atomic number 90
Thor is the god of thunder.

> PLD 4.x will be Pa, Protactinium, atomic number 91, PLD 5.x will be U,
We don't know that yet.

> Ti is Titanium, atomic number 22.
Fine enough.

> > So that's basically remaking Th in an awkward way. Why bother and not
> > just put effort into making upgreading to Th as clean as possible?
> Th is faaar from being stable/usable (at least in my opinion).
Th is almost ready to be released, according to RM.

> Ac is
> already stable and very usable so we may skip all those "freezing and
> stabilizing" parts. Why not to put effort into Th? Because it will take
> at least year (probably more) before it will be as stable as Ac is now.
Ac is stable (as in dead), fine. But I fail to see how that affects 2.1.
You will change almost everything and claim it's "stable" because it's
based on Ac, and Th is not "stable", because it was something new some
time ago?

And, maybe throw away that "freezing and stabilizing" crap that has proven
two times it's completly broken? I mean, there's no definition of
"stable", there's stagnation and lack of interest, because the magic
process of "stabilization" takes at least a year and involves making no
changes to anything, and so on.

> Remaking Ac should take few months tops.
Wishful thinking.

> > I sense forthcoming PLD 2.5, 3.4, 4.3, 5.2, 6.1, so that everyone who
> > fears upgreading to PLD 7.0 can keep up to date.
> Is that bad to have new versions more often?
We can release new PLD version every day, every hour even.

> > What's the point?
> To have distro usable on production machines few months from now? Ac
> will probably be out of date by this time and Th wouldn't be stable enough.
Stable, stable, stable. Define stable. And why Th is not stable?

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