[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Tue Jun 14 01:02:51 CEST 2011

Le lundi 13 juin 2011 à 15:51 +0300, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
+> Wolfgang Bornath skrev 13.6.2011 15:20:
+> > About the cycles:
+> >
+> > The 9-months seem to be a compromise - but I start to ask why we need
+> > such a fixed statement (which it would be, once published). We need a
+> > schedule for each cycle, that's true. Without a schedule we would
+> > never finish anything. But how about taking 9 months only as a "nice
+> > to meet" target, leaving us the option to set a roadmap after setting
+> > the specs of the next release - we could then go for a 8 or 10 months
+> > roadmap, depending on the specs.
+> >
+> 
+> This is somewhat like what I had in my mind to write too, but you beat 
+> me to it :)
+> 
+> It could allow us to adapt a little for upstream releases.
+> But should we then decide that the limit is +/- 1 month ?
+
+There is 2 problem :
+- for release of what software ?
+- what if the upstream planning is wrong, and their releases is late
+( as it happened when I was a trainee in Mandrakesoft, with xfree being
+3 months late and the distribution still shipping a broken pre release )
+
+
+> Obviously there will still be people complaining that "you waited 10 
+> months... if you had extended with ~2 more weeks... "this" or "that"
+> package would have been available too... and so on....
+
+Yes, there will be. 
+So let's be realist, 9 months with +/- 1 month is just 10 months +
+people complaining to have 10,5 months.
+
+We will never use the -1 month, because there will always be something
+worth waiting.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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