Debian Decides To Adopt Time-Based Release Freezes 79
frenchbedroom writes "The ongoing Debconf 9 meeting in Cáceres, Spain has brought a significant change to Debian's project management. The Debian project will now freeze development in December of every odd year, which means we can expect a new Debian release in the spring of every even year, starting with 'Squeeze' in 2010. Until now, development freezing was decided by the Debian release team. From the announcement: 'The project chose December as a suitable freeze date since spring releases proved successful for the releases of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codenamed "Etch") and Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 ("Lenny"). Time-based freezes will allow the Debian Project to blend the predictability of time based releases with its well established policy of feature based releases. The new freeze policy will provide better predictability of releases for users of the Debian distribution, and also allow Debian developers to do better long-term planning. A two-year release cycle will give more time for disruptive changes, reducing inconveniences caused for users. Having predictable freezes should also reduce overall freeze time.' We previously discussed talks between Canonical and the Debian release team about fixed freeze dates."
Re:Linux: Debian (Score:5, Funny)
a.) It says December, I'm pretty sure December is always in December no matter what hemisphere you're in, which makes it pretty obvious what they mean by Spring.
b.) No one cares about the Southern Hemisphere.
Re:Linux: Debian (Score:3, Funny)
Re:By the Way - this insane versioning bent (Score:5, Funny)
Seeing as how debian only releases every century or so, that's not really a problem. The current release is the one you hear about. If it's not that it's the one you vaguely remember. The one before your kids were born, you were in high school, or possibly back when MTV played music videos (or insert some other thing waay back). If it's a version you haven't heard of it's so outdated that only the old long bearded unix sages locked up in corporate server farms programing cobol/fortran remember much about.
Re:By the Way - this insane versioning bent (Score:3, Funny)
You should probably get your centuries looked at, if you're only getting around two years out of them. Mine last a hundred years or so; I gather that's about average.