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

Tue Oct 5 15:28:31 CEST 2010

+
+Personally I think the way Mandriva maintains both updates and backports
+for each release is a waste of resources.
+
+I do agree that Mageia should be a semi-rolling distro.
+
+By "semi rolling distro" I mean the following:
+
+Release a distro every 8-12 months (the exact cyle is not the point I'm
+debating here, it could be 6 months too, it doesn't mater for the concept
+I'm trying to explain).
+
+Provide updates/security patches for all the basic stuff that has a lot of
+dependencies (kernel, core libs, kde, gnome, xorg, etc.).
+
+Provide newer release rather than backported security patches for all other
+apps.
+
+In other words, backports (rather than backported security fixes) should be
+the rule for everything apart from the core system stuff that has loads of
+dependencies.
+
+This would reduce the space requirements on the mirrors and it would mean
+that Mageia is a "rolling distro" for most apps, making it more attractive
+compared to ubuntu/Fedora/opensuse and at the same time reduce the workload
+for packagers.
+
+