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A Debriefing On Debian's Woody Release

Posted by timothy on from the freedom-of-information dept.

solferino writes: "Anthony Towns has posted a fairly detailed 'retrospective' on the release of woody and an 'introspective' on the future release of sarge." This is a long, informative read for anyone interested in how the complicated Debian release process plays out behind the scenes. ("Grep for 'realistic schedule'. Doh.")

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  1. Must.... release.... faster..... by Captain+Pedantic · · Score: 1


    The same thing they said two years ago after Potato was released. Ho hum.

    Still, nothing beats it, and I'm running a standard release for the first time in, um, two years.

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  2. Comments about boot floppies are now obsolete by psgalbraith · · Score: 2, Interesting

    debian-installer is not only the official way to boot for sarge, but boot-floppies are declared dead:

    http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2002/debian -project-200207/msg00094.html

  3. boot floppy reinvention.. yet again? by cpeterso · · Score: 2


    Why does Debian completely rewrite their installer and boot floppies for each release? They can't seem to choose a design they can stick with. Both Woody and Potato suffered from buggy boot floppies that were delivered WAY past schedule, delaying the entire Debian release..

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  4. DVD Version of Woody by Some+guy+named+Chris · · Score: 3, Funny

    I downloaded the DVD version, but when I tried to play it in my DVD player, all I got was Richard Stallman on my TV yelling "It's GNU /Linux!".

  5. Hehe... woody... release.... by jzarzosa · · Score: 1

    Sorry, don't mean to sound like a 10 year old, but you gotta admit the naming convention is quite funny ;)

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  6. Why so few posts? by Paul+Bain · · Score: 1

    &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp I am amazed at the paucity of posts relating to this story. I thought that there were many thousands of Debian users on Slashdot. And I thought that nearly everyone would have an opinion on why Woody was delayed so. Am I wrong?

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    1. Re:Why so few posts? by HP+LoveJet · · Score: 1

      I think it's because this is a Red-Headed Stepchild story that got posted to dev.s.o but never made it to the front page.

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    2. Re:Why so few posts? by MessageDrivenBean · · Score: 1

      It doesn't really matter, since you could have been running Woody from the day Potato was freezed anyway. I have.

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