[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

[Dexter Morgan]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> so , with a little bit delay due to various things ( like everybody
> asking stuff to us on irc on a hourly fashion ( people will I hope
> recognize themselves )), Anne and I have reviewed the various proposals
> made through years during the early period of the distribution, and
> before at Mandriva. We took in account the feedback of people on forum,
> on ml, nd those we have seen during events. We also discussed with
> others distributions developers we know from Opensuse, Fedora, Debian,
> Ubuntu about their release cycle, the choices they made and their
> reasons.
>
> Before going to the proposal, a few point of vocabulary :
>
> Release cycle mean the time between 2 releases.
>

 Hello, i would be in favor of proposal 2.

For not beeing in sync with upstream projects ( gnome, kde, ... ) this
is for me a "false problem"  because we won't provide the first
release ( like gnome 3.2 or kde 4.7 ) but we will be able to release a
bugfix release ( gnome 3.2.x , kde 4.7.5 ) which means less work for
QA team during stable release.

This proposal allow us to do more "long term" projects too.

I think that with proposition 3 we will have less visibility because
ppl will have real news of us only once per year.