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

Tue Oct 5 16:21:23 CEST 2010

Le mardi 5 octobre 2010 15:47:20, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> On 5 October 2010 15:28, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+> > Personally I think the way Mandriva maintains both updates and backports
+> > for each release is a waste of resources.
+> 
+> How is it a waste?
+> 
+> A practical example is the college professor / school teacher (see
+> Fernando Parra post a few emails back); he doesn't want to upgrade the
+> boxes in the lab, he doesn't care if they have the newest/shiniest
+> versions, just that the distro is stable and works(tm). The same
+> applies for a company, servers... etc. We aren't talking only about
+> personal boxes that can break without too much drastic consequences.
+
+No need to update. What on earth is that feeling that a rolling distro forces 
+users to update ? 
+
+> 
+> > 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.
+> 
+> Again a rolling distro is something that's not clearly defined. And to
+> be honest, a rolling distro isn't suitable for new or inexperienced
+> users. Simply because you can't guarantee that a new package won't
+> introduce regressions (or totally break an app), in this case an
+> experienced user will know how to revert to an older version, a new or
+> inexperienced user won't.
+> 
+> Look at the rolling distros that've been mentioned, Debian or Gentoo,
+> right? would anyone recommend Debian or Gentoo for a
+> new/inexperienced/non-power user?
+
+PCLinuxOS is a rolling distro and is to inexperienced users.
+
+Olivier
+