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

Sat Oct 2 02:09:47 CEST 2010

On Fri, 01 Oct 2010, Olivier Méjean wrote:
+
+> 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 !)
+
+Security updates are different, they usually only do the minimal changes
+required to fix bugs, so updating is not supposed to cause troubles
+with other unexpected changes.
+
+> 
+> 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.
+
+This rolling release already exists, it's called the backport
+repository. But don't expect the same stability as the fixed release,
+you can't have both.
+
+