[arch-general] On rolling release system and its benefits.

[Ali H. Caliskan]

I agree with you completely. I'm not saying that Arch is unstable or stable,
but rather talking about rolling release concept in snapshot release. It's
good to know that there are people to seek help for this kind of project. I
mean if I was a developer, I certainly would be doing stuff than writing
about it. However, I'll try to assign myself that task of trying it, because
of the challenge it gives you. Anyway, thank you all the developer for a
great work and effort in Arch. Like I said before, it's damn pretty well
maintained distro :)

Kind regards,

Ali


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>wrote:

> Grigorios Bouzakis schrieb:
>
>> Hi, it has been discussed many times in the past. Bottom line is, if
>> you want to do that go ahead, the developers wont help you. Meaning
>> this will not be an official project.
>>
>
> It's true that there won't be an official project, but it doesn't mean
> there won't be any help.
> People who know me will know that while I don't always have much time to do
> work, I always try to give good advice, and that is what I would also offer
> anyone who would start such a project. There will definitely be help and
> support from the dev team, but whoever decides to do this will have to do
> the actual work himself or herself. And believe me, creating a stable branch
> is lots of work - companies like Novell and rich people like Shuttleworth
> spend MUCH money on it!
>
> That said, from my and many users' experience, Arch is very stable despite
> constantly changing. We have managed to walk the fine line between bleeding
> edge and stability/usability, and I think we have been doing pretty well.
>
>