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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:52:06PM +0500, Alexander Tsamutali wrote:
> > Our main problems, IMHO:
> <snip>
<snip>
> I've made my opinion on this known many times:
> ISOs, we need more attention paid to ISO development and a more frequent
> iso development schedule. ISO's are the only thing we produce that
> distrowatch and other main linux distro websites will mention.
> More news on other sites means more traffic to our site. More
> traffic -> more installs -> more users -> more developers.

I agree here, and in that vein I have been helping out with the  
stable/stable-rc integration work. Currently there are no bugs against  
stable-rc (though that's mainly because I haven't moved the bugs filed  
against test when it was snapshotted into stable-rc into stable-rc)  
and there are no requests to integrate fixes into stable-rc left. Once  
stable-rc is deemed "good enough" (with a Prometheus run against it,  
at least on x86 architecture and the bugs fixed that we find) then we  
can probably release a new stable, which is the main holdup of a new  
ISO.

The main issues with stable releases are, IMO:
* Not enough people helping to triage bugs
* Not enough people fixing stable-rc/stable bugs
* Too much attention is spent on test grimoire

If we can get more help targetted at making sure bugs are filed  
against the proper grimoire(s) and fixing the bugs that affect  
stable-rc/stable before bugs that fix test, this would help.

-sandalle

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