[cut-team] Article about CUT

[Adnan Hodzic]

Here's the draft 2, I'm currently looking for someone who's native
speaker to check it one more time.

Here's the draft 2: http://goo.gl/jO03N

> Your description of unstable/testing/stable is oversimplified and flawed.

Reason I got it so simplified is because its target audience, some of
those people don't even know Ubuntu is even based on Debian.

> I don't really find the Android reference pertinent.

Somehow I find it to be related :-/

I fixed every other part you mentioned that needs fixing or could be
said in different way. Thank you for you input.


Adnan

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Adnan Hodzic wrote:
>> Here's the first draft of the article: http://goo.gl/c4uBD
>
> A quick review because I don't have much time... but I don't want
> miscommunication either.
>
> "project that has been undergoing for quite some time now"
>
> this gives the false impression that the project is live already...
> except for a few experiments, it's still mostly vaporware so I would avoid
> giving false expectations
>
> ---
>
> Your description of unstable/testing/stable is oversimplified and flawed.
> The mantra "it's released when it's ready" is still true, even if we
> manage to release every 2 years approximately.
>
> ---
>
> The CUT idea by Joey Hess is older than 2 years.
>
> ---
>
> "it has been discussed they are released either every month or every six
> months."
>
> Well, the discussinos mentionned many possible delays, but I don't think
> you can claim that the choice will be either 1 month or 6 months. In fact
> I hope it's going to be somewhere in the middle if anything.
>
> ---
>
> " nor in case you already switched to testing would you have to worry
> whether your next update will break your system "
>
> Well, this might be a long term goal but it's not a good idea to make
> a claim that this is going to be the case. Not all maintainers are going
> to care about upgradibility between CUT (or in testing).
>
> ---
>
> I don't really find the Android reference pertinent.
>
> ---
>
> We have asked Michael Gilbert to not present his experiment as CUT and you
> present it as a first step of CUT. You should not do that. Present it as
> the experiment of someone interested to explore the concepts behind CUT
> and not something (semi-)official.
>
> ---
>
> That's it, I suggest you get it proofread by a native english speaker
> because quite a few sentences sounded awkward to me.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
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