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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 05:26:42PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:
> 
> >In discussion during an admin meeting 50 stable bugs was the threshold
> >of acceptability to participants for a 1.0 release.  70's really not
> >that bad compared to where it was.
> 
> I should be attending more of those... It doesn't matter now, but fifty is 
> way
> too many. In regards to "where it was:" where it is now is below the radar
> level on Distrowatch or anywhere else I know, so let's not use this as a
> comparison.

Enough of this distrowatch bullshit.

1) all this "hey go click distrowatch" is useless.

2) ISO RELEASES ARE THE ONLY THING THAT GET SUBSTANTIAL DISTROWATCH 
COVERAGE (unless you are gentoo).  Reviews maybe but let's not astroturf 
reviews, please.  Front page profile turns into massive hits per day.  
If you're so concerned, buy a distrowatch ad for us.

3) distrowatch because of rule (2) is the dumbest thing in the world.  
It's geared toward binary distros (unless you are gentoo).

I've only had a few weeks to reduce bug counts.  Everybody's partly 
responsible for this and if people write buggy code, buggy code will hit 
stable unless you never want people to see another stable grimoire 
release ever again.  Remember, we can shift benchmarks and goals at any 
time.  They aren't set by a baron from above.

Regarding (2) again, specifically the next ISO, a lot of improvement has 
happened that is behind the scenes on the ability to make a reproducible 
ISO.  We've learned a lot on this road, and I think we're pretty soon 
going to hit critical mass, but we need a solid 1.0 release for that.  
I'm doing everything I can to get us there, but part of going somewhere 
is knowing where you are.

:)

Seth

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