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

Sat Oct 2 14:50:57 CEST 2010

Le vendredi 1 octobre 2010, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
+> Le vendredi 1 octobre 2010 08:51:34, atilla ontas a écrit :
+
+> > What's your opinion?
+> 
+> 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.
+> 
+
+My opinion is nearly the same: what is the need to provide a new version each 
+6 months? The marketing point of view is not a valid answer since we do not 
+need to satsify shareholders or follow the market.
+
+So when a new version is needed? My point of view is that a new version is 
+needed when a big change will occur for exemple a new major release of KDE or 
+gnome, Xorg, perl, python, jdk, ...
+
+We need to change our view. Actually, the date of the release is decide and 
+the deciders (maketting, CEO, CTO, ?) choose which softwares will be include.
+I propose to look at release date of the main softwares and decide when a new 
+version will be proposed.
+
+For smaller software, we do not need to wait for a new version of the distro. 
+Just provide it as we do with the backport repository. 
+
+And no, rolling distro does mean use cauldron, since the system is not 
+supposed to work properly and where critical breakage can appear.
+  
+