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Re: Should the website still say that GRUB 2 is currently under developm


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: Should the website still say that GRUB 2 is currently under development?
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:28:18 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:25:26PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 18:19 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:45:35AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 15:05 +0200, adrian15 wrote:
> > > > Felix Zielcke escribió:
> > > > > I think the currently under development part can be now removed.
> > > > > Or would it be better to wait for the 1.97 release? (which hopefully
> > > > > comes before December)
> > > > That would be nice because Debian freezes at December.
> > > 
> > > I don't see anything wrong with being "under development".  I hope that
> > > GRUB 2 will be under development even after the 1.97.  I don't see how
> > > Debian can have any problem with that.
> > 
> > It depends.  If we say GRUB 2 is "under development" but we don't say 
> > anything
> > about GRUB Legacy, people might think GRUB 2 is not ready.
> > 
> > I agree with Pavel, saying GRUB 2 is under development doesn't fail to the
> > truth, but then again there are many ways of saying the truth.  I think we
> > should make the website give a clear message that:
> > 
> >   a) GRUB Legacy is obsolete and we don't longer support it
> > 
> >   b) GRUB 2 is more mature than GRUB Legacy
> > 
> 
> Good idea. I just think that I'm not good at proposing a good wording
> for it.
> And maybe we should wait untill 1.97 gets released before telling grub2
> is more mature then grub-legacy.

Agreed.  We don't want to lead anyone into using 1.96.

-- 
Robert Millan

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