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I don't know if a 6 month cycle would +</I>><i> not put too much stress on the dev/packager community. But 12 months +</I>><i> are a bit much for the hordes of impatient users usually residing in +</I>><i> the forums. +</I>><i> So I would - for now - prefer option 2, 9 months seeming a reasonable +</I>><i> time span. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Especially since we would always be able to change that cycle to +</I>><i> something more fitting. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> As to the "rolling" and the "lts" discussion. I think it's something +</I>><i> for the future. We first have to see, how much manpower we really have, +</I>><i> to maintain the distro. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I woul then kind of like the idea of a special rolling repo like +</I>><i> debian testing or suse tumbleweed. +</I> +Well, has someone looked at what they do ? + +Debian testing is not a rolling release for users, but it is a base for +the release. And bigger packages updates are slow to migrate, for +example, there is still iceweael/firefox 3.X +<A HREF="http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/iceweasel">http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/iceweasel</A> . So I am not sure that +it will really bring what people want ( as this is not what it was +designed for in the first place ). + +Gentoo model is heavily dependent on sources recompilation on user +workstation so not applicable ( even if this is the closest of what +people could want in term of package management ). + +I didn't look at the tumbleweed system, but I fear this is highly +dependent on the Suse workflow, so if someone could do the research to +explain clearly what it does for the next discussion, it would surely +help. ( this also mean that people should keep such research for next +discussion and do not mix with the current one ) +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="005488.html">[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="005493.html">[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#5491">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#5491">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#5491">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#5491">[ 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> |