Re: Slightly OT: Debian Community Poll

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:30:59 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Please do not impose
> your definition of "outdated" on everyone else and do not disparage
> the hard work that Debian Developers put in quality control.

Outdated = not current, obsolete.

> You, an
> Ada software engineer, should know better than "the latest is always
> the greatest".

True, but it is up to the authors, in this case of GtkSourceView, to decide
what is "greatest" and what is stable.

>>> Since you are neither an academic nor a conservative server
>>> administrator, as an individual user administering only your own
>>> machine, you have no reason to lock yourself into a release cycle at
>>> all; you can upgrade as seldom or as often as you want to. As a
>>> developer of a future Debian package, you however must build on
>>> unstable; hence my suggestion to use whatever you want as a user and
>>> an unstable chroot for your Debian packaging.
> 
> This second half was for you, Dmitry, and I am a bit sad that you
> chose to ignore it. Please re-read it aloud, slowly.

I cut it, because there was no need to comment it. It would be off-topic to
dispute over conservatism, why Ada users are more conservative than server
administrators, who are the target customers of Linux distributions.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de