[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Fri Oct 1 22:57:06 CEST 2010

Op vrijdag 01 oktober 2010 22:41:59 schreef Olivier Méjean:
+> Le vendredi 1 octobre 2010 21:38:14, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> > On Fri, 01 Oct 2010, Olivier Méjean wrote:
+> > > What about a rolling distribution ? As an user (just plain user) i do
+> > > not think that installing a distribution is a goal, just a mean to use
+> > > my computer, so i wish i could not spend time installing a
+> > > distribution every 6 months or every year.
+> > 
+> > And you prefer to spend time to update your distribution every day
+> > instead of every year ?
+> 
+> I update my distribution if not every day every week each time there is an
+> update, but moreover i need to update every 6 months if i want to have
+> latest versions. So right now the point is updating every day and
+> upgrading to new version every 6 months (and truely, i am still using
+> 2010).
+> 
+> The question of time is a wrong question, i spend time upgrading every day
+> (well just clicking the applet, typing password and let's go !)
+> 
+> I don't know how often Mageia will be released, and how long all the
+> versions will be maintened, i am not sure that a fixed release is the best
+> choice. My feeling is that there is a huge hope, maybe not among
+> developers, for a great rolling distro (understand great by with many
+> contributors) that could emerge among all the fixed released distribution.
+> 
+> The point i want to emphasis is that i still do not understand why my
+> Mandriva 2010 offers me OOo 3.1 while Mandriva 2010.1 offers OOo 3.2. Can
+> OOo 3.2 work on Mandriva 2010 ? It also means that Mandriva should look
+> for patch for OOo 3.1 and OOo 3.2 to maintain those two versions (and by
+> the way, on a Mandriva 2009.1 you have OOo 3.1.1-0.3, on 2010 you have OOo
+> 3.1.1-2.5 and on 2010.1 you have OOo 3.2-4), Mageia will face the same
+> problem. For me, as a user, it would be simplier to provide just one
+> version, the latest. Update can be delayed, time to test. But i really do
+> not understand why OOo 3.2 is not available for Mandriva 2010 nor 2009.1.
+> That's maybe a question of time of compilation, take long time to create
+> OOo rpms, it takes 3 times more to create OOo rpms for 3 different edition
+> (or is there any technical issue that forbid OOo 3.2 on Mandriva 2010 and
+> 2009.1 ?). I also doubt that OOo 3.1 is still in development, neither
+> seems OOo 3.2.
+> 
+> So i would not like the same for Mageia. It is a new project, we shall not
+> need to re-take everything from Mandriva, but rather innovate and there i
+> guess there is a way to innovate. Maybe a core part of the distribution
+> could be in fixed release, the rest in rolling release.
+
+
+i don't understand, if you click the applet every time there's an update, then 
+when there's a new version, the you also click the applet and it updates... 
+there isn't any real difference from a user pov...
+