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It's much faster to read some topic +</I>>><i> on a forum than dozens emails. And your final user should be able to +</I>>><i> know what happen easily. It would be a big + in front of others +</I>>><i> distributions. +</I>><i> by *claire +</I>><i> <<A HREF="https://forums.mageia.org/en/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=448">https://forums.mageia.org/en/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=448</A>>* +</I>><i> » Jun 16th, '11, 14:27 +</I>><i> +</I>><i> pmithrandir wrote:On my side, I think mageia should do a "mix" of +</I>><i> others idea. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I would say : +</I>><i> - A release every year. +</I>><i> - During this year, a way to update some popular stuff (firefox, +</I>><i> chrome, libreoffice...) +</I>><i> - During this year also a way to add some new package if needed or +</I>><i> if there is some instant success for a new software. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Every 3 years, the release is LTS and that mean it would be +</I>><i> maintain for 4 years. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So at the same time, mageia would be in 3 mode : +</I>><i> - The LTS +</I>><i> - The common release +</I>><i> - The cauldron. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I completely agree with this. There is no real need to rush releases +</I>><i> as long as new versions are easily available. I know backports repo is +</I>><i> available but its not very user friendly. As an example, the newer +</I>><i> versions of Openshot video editor have a very nice feature of being +</I>><i> able to do animated titles. To be able to use them you need Blender +</I>><i> 2.5. Whilst Mageia includes Openshot 1.3.1 (which errors with missing +</I>><i> plugins btw) which at time of writing is current it still has Blender +</I>><i> 2.49b. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It would be useful if there were a nice user friendly way to upgrade +</I>><i> Blender when it is backported. Something to let ordinary users know a +</I>><i> newer version is available and a simple click to upgrade it. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> LTS releases in Ubuntu IMHO are a great idea and one which would add +</I>><i> value to mageia as a potential server/business OS where stability over +</I>><i> time is crucial. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I dont think Joe Bloggs really cares about a 6 monthly distribution +</I>><i> upgrade, only that new versions of the software they use are easily +</I>><i> obtainable in the mean time and won't break the distribution upgrade +</I>><i> when it comes around. +</I>by *roadrunner +<<A HREF="https://forums.mageia.org/en/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=468">https://forums.mageia.org/en/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=468</A>>* » +Jun 16th, '11, 15:35 + + claire wrote: + + pmithrandir wrote:I dont think Joe Bloggs really cares about a 6 + monthly distribution upgrade, only that new versions of the + software they use are easily obtainable in the mean time and + won't break the distribution upgrade when it comes around. + +Speaking as a typical "Joe Bloggs", all I'm interested in is keeping my +applications up to date with the occasional distribution upgrade. I'm +not interested in regular release cycles because I feel that this leads +to "rush-jobs", which in turn, leads to bugs galore. I'm more interested +in a solid reliable distribution upgrade on the "it'll be ready when +it's ready" basis. + +.\\artin +- Mageia 1 32-bit - KDE SC 4.6.3 - +- AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ CPU - +- 4Gb RAM - nVidia 8500GT GPU - +-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20110616/50b25b5c/attachment.html> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="005780.html">[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="005785.html">[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion - messages from the forum +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#5781">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#5781">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#5781">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#5781">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |