[cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

[ dropping -www, setting Mail-Followup-To: cut-team ]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 04:06:00PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > On 01/05/2013 01:28 AM, alberto fuentes wrote:
> >> The few people on the list seems happy with it. If this is working
> >> well, it needs a little more love on debian.org and a  'testing-cut'
> >> link in the repos pointing to latest cut, so it can be set on
> >> sources.list and forgotten
> >
> > Yes, we need to advertize more about CUT. CC-ing debian-www at lists.d.o
> > in the hope the www team can link to CUT install instructions from
> > our home page.
> 
> I probably should have already sent a message a while ago on this, but
> yes the monthly snapshots have been put on hiatus during the freeze.
> The official d-i betas and release candidates are recommended now so
> that they get sufficient testing and feedback before the release.

Doesn't this diminish significantly the advantages of CUT? Back in the
days of the CUT discussion, one of the main "issues" associated to
testing is that it stops rolling during freezes.

That is entirely normal for the purpose of releasing stable, given that
testing has been developed as a tool to that end.  But it does make
testing less appealing for those that have over many years found other
interesting uses of testing, such as using it as a basis for rolling
derivatives (e.g. Mint), or as a distribution for power users that still
want some sort of "protection" between them and the latest uploads to
unstable & experimental.

Cheers.
-- 
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