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

Sat Oct 2 11:49:34 CEST 2010

On Sat, 02 Oct 2010, Olivier Méjean wrote:
+
+> Le samedi 2 octobre 2010 02:09:47, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> 
+> > 
+> > 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.
+> > 
+> 
+> Well, i disagree for a good reason, in free software there is no (or mainly 
+> no) separation between new versions of a software only correcting bugs, and 
+> new versions of the same software adding new functionnalities. Let's take an 
+> example, digikam.
+> Changes from digikam 1.3 to 1.4 are bugs correction affecting digikam 1.3 and 
+> addition of new functionnalities. So what ? I need digikam more stable so 
+> let's use the version that corrects bugs, so the latest, but it also adds new 
+> functionnalities that may provide bugs ... (and in the case of Digikam 1.4 it 
+> requires KDE 4.5, unfortunately there is no update to KDE 4.5 for Mandriva 
+> 2010 !) what to do ? 
+
+Yes, new versions are fixing bugs and adding new ones.
+
+> I also add that creating backports is creating new packages for older versions 
+> that is more time to compilation, more time to ensure quality, and so. In the 
+> whole i am not sure that it.
+
+Yes, that's the problem with "core part of the distribution in fixed
+release, the rest in rolling release". But isn't that what you asking
+for ?
+
+I don't understand what you want. 
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