Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> writes:
On 18/10/2014 9:31 AM, Chris Samuel wrote:
* it'll be too late to affect Jessie due to the freeze rules
Debian doesn't do many things quickly, what harm would it do if Jessie was postponed indefinitely? Putting a date on a freeze is only a recent phenomenon-- it used to be, "it will be ready when it IS ready".
It makes life harder for companies (like mine) that want to plan multi-year upgrade cycles to suck as little as possible. For example, RIGHT NOW we could start migrating a bunch of infrastructure from Ubuntu 10.04 to Debian 7, which would suck. OR we could start targeting jessie so that migration will be done around the time Debian 8 is actually released. Having said that, one of the reasons we're sick of Ubuntu is their release policy is less "WIR" and more "when it's not ready"... ;-)