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Tanglu is not an 'offical' Debian project, although it was started together with some Debian Developers. But we think that Tanglu might help Debian. We will sync the permissions of all Debian developers, so they can maintain their packages in Tanglu during a Debian freeze if they want to do that, so Tanglu and it's users get the latest upstream software, while Debian can start the new release cycle with already tested packages from Tanglu. We believe that this will increase the package quality and result in a less rough start of Debian development after a freeze. However, Tanglu is not a Debian experimental distribution or playground for untested software. Everything in Tanglu should be usable for it's users and be released upstream software. We are in contact with Debian and try to keep the delta between Tanglu and Debian as low as possible, so we do not introduce incompatibilities.

Is Tanglu 1.0 based on Debian Testing or Unstable?

It's neither. While the majority of packages comes from Testing, a significantly large amount is taken from Unstable. A few packages even trace back to Debian Experimental. When building this release we tried to get the technically best constellation of packages, including newer versions where it made sense. Using the versions from Testing as primary choice has the advantage that these versions already received some testing in Debian before they landed in Tanglu.