Category: Linux

A little more than a year ago, I published a series of posts talking about Debian’s release cycle, which was followed by an exercise in how a small python script could be used to track the number of bugs related to it. That exercise had multiple objectives, but its main purpose was teaching myself about…

Merely two hours after my last post, Niels Thykier sent an email to debian-devel-announce informing us that Buster’s Release is planned for July 6th (less than a month from now). Personally that makes me happy; I didn’t want to wait until October (as per my former estimate). And I want to think that my post…

In my last post about Buster I explained how I devised a little Python script that tracks the number of RC Bugs in Debian’s current Testing distribution as a rudimentary way of tracking the progress of the Freeze process. I also mentioned that I’ve been running it (for a couple of months at the time…

In my last post I went over how Debian’s release cycle works. In fact, all we can hope for is a planned release date, but even that depends on how things progress during the final stages of the Freeze, and even then a planned release day is only settled on very late in the process.…

The cycle of Debian‘s releases is not an usual one. Most Linux distributions follow two paths. Some of them follow a strict periodicity, and we see a new version being released according to that periodicity. For example, Ubuntu releases a new version every six months. Other distributions, however, choose their release dates according to other…