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

Sat Oct 2 12:15:44 CEST 2010

Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 20:03 +0200, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
+
+> 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. 
+
+Unity linux does it already
+( http://docs.unity-linux.org/Unity_Versions )
+
+The concept of rolling release by itself is unclear and blurry.
+
+First semantically, if the characteristics of a rolling release is to
+have no release, how can it be rolling ?
+
+Secondary, having constantly updated packages doesn't say much about how
+and what are upgraded. You can have development distribution like
+rawhide that are not mean to be fully usable and are broken quite often,
+you have debian sid and testing, who differ greatly in admissibility of
+packages, and whose goal is to be released from time to time ( which can
+lead to software very outdated, preventing big transitions like kde4 who
+went in sid, ie the most up to date version of debian ) quite late, or
+python 2.6 ).
+
+Knowing what is upgraded and how impact the stability and is usually
+chosen by the purpose of the distribution. Hence the name "rolling
+release" do not really tell much about what should be done exactly. 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+