“So you want to be a Hero, err, Leader?”. That is, of course, for the Debian community only. /. mentions a ZDNet article covering the candidate’s comments, proposals and promises. Debian’s (in)famous release cycle seems to be one of the favoured topics. Faster definitely _is_ something you want to have – or better: have to have in your showroom. Well, welcome to the wonderful world of politics.

I have a proposal myself, of course not thought through well, short sighted and maybe simply stupid but simple nonetheless (which is perfectly ok, for I’m not running for any leaderships ):
Let there be a security repository for testing (IIRC that has been announced already) and promote it as the desktop-branch with ‘stable’ beeing the choice for production environments and ‘unstable’ for the rest. But of course, it can’t be that simple. Anyway, I’ve been running SID on my desktop for some years now and found it to be equally or even more stable and consistent than any other major desktop distribution. Maybe the real problem is labeling? If you don’t know what you’re dealing with, you probably don’t want to run something called ‘testing’ or even ‘unstable’.

And btw, the good thing about /. is not the news but the discussion, isn’t it?

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