Debian May 1 Release Delayed

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 30, 2002 @12:51AM from the who's-surprised-by-that dept.

andrew writes "Anthony Towns, Debian's Release Manager, posted this message regarding the status of the expected May 1st release of Woody made reference to in this slashdot story. In short, he says: "So, it's April 30th (for most of the planet, anyway), which probably means folks are beginning to get mildly curious about whether woody'll actually be ready for release tomorrow. The answer is a definite 'kind-of'. Which is to say, 'no'.""

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Huh? by proverbialcow · 2002-04-30 00:53 · Score: 5, Funny

How do you delay May 1st?

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1. Re:Huh? by Latent+IT · 2002-04-30 01:06 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  The great quote from the article:
  
  Hopefully people will be able to use the forthcoming suffering as an incentive to get this done right next time.
  
  Now that's the hellfire and damnation management theory I subscribe to! =)
Re:The eternal story of delays by oyenstikker · 2002-04-30 01:26 · Score: 5, Funny

The projects aren't late. The scheduled release dates were just early.

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Re:Worth waiting for... by Peter+Harris · 2002-04-30 01:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah.

Developers all over the world must be waiting with bated breath to release all their new cool features the week AFTER the Debian release ;)

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filth by tps12 · 2002-04-30 01:42 · Score: 5, Funny

The last thing I want to read about is debate over when it's time to "release the woody." That is just nasty, and there is no place for such filth on the Internet.

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1. Re:filth by DMCA · 2002-04-30 02:03 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  there is no place for such filth on the Internet
  You haven't been on the Internet very long, have you?
  
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Not really by af_robot · 2002-04-30 01:45 · Score: 2, Funny

The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time
experimental? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-30 02:09 · Score: 1, Funny

I'd rather have a working, secure, stable distribution a few days later than have a highly experimental one with all sorts of hidden defects right now.

Sounds like Linux isn't the system for you. Try FreeBSD
oh no! by super-flex-o-matic · 2002-04-30 03:59 · Score: 2, Funny

this will result in worldwide protests.
police will have a hard time, calming down the debian-users.

join the revolution
sorry for doing this by yzquxnet · 2002-04-30 09:35 · Score: 2, Funny

but 'woody'll' is not even remotely proper. You can't make it into a contraction. 'woddy will' would be the correct way to say it.