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

[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>]

Am Montag, den 10.08.2009, 17:28 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan:
> 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   a) GRUB Legacy is obsolete and we don't longer support it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.

Now that 1.97 finally is released (yehaw), does anyone have a good
wording for the website?


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer