[cut-team] Article about CUT

[Adnan Hodzic]

Here's the third and hopefully final draft, after it was proofread by
Nattie (English native) :)

draft 3 - http://goo.gl/hXAjR

I'll give it some time until it gets read, then I'll publish it later on.


Adnan

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Adnan Hodzic <adnan at foolcontrol.org> wrote:
> 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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