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

Tue Oct 5 19:33:59 CEST 2010

On 5 October 2010 18:54, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+>
+>
+> Quote: Ahmad Samir wrote on Tue, 05 October 2010 17:41
+>>
+>> A rolling distro isn't a defined term, as Michael explained, now you
+>> add "light" to the equation and it becomes even more undefined.
+>
+> You shouldn't look at the name but rather at the description that me and
+> others have given here earlier.
+>
+
+I looked at the description that Michael gave. And I think I know what
+a rolling distro is having Cooker and all :). light/heavy makes no
+sense here.
+
+>> I said all I got to say on this topic, now I can wait and see how
+>> things turn out (my guess would be it'll stay the same, Cauldron a
+>> rolling/dev distro, and stable releases on predefined intervals, just
+>> my "personal" guess).
+>
+> I guess that depends mostly on what the packagers will feel like doing,
+> ultimately in a community distro nobody can be force anyone to do
+> anything, if too few people are doing security fix backports but most are
+> doing version backports then we will have this 'light' rolling distro (or
+> whatever you want to call it), if not then we will have the old mdv
+> model.
+>
+>
+
+It's not I'll-work-my-own-way-and-do-what-I-want, any packager can do
+so in his own repo/distro. There'll be rules which should be followed
+even in a community-driven distro, otherwise it'll be chaos.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+