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

Tue Oct 5 20:56:54 CEST 2010

Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 20:17 +0200, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> On 5 October 2010 19:53, Tux 99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+> > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Ahmad Samir wrote:
+> >
+> >> 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 give up, i'm not sure if it's a communication problem or if you are
+> > simply pretending not to understand to wind us up.
+> >
+> 
+> Well, according to you I don't understand what you're saying, and also
+> Michael doesn't understand what you're saying, but maybe it's
+> coincidence?
+
+Well, let's try to be constructive.
+
+For all people interested into having a rolling release or a core based
+distribution, I propose that they write a document explaining :
+
+- the release process ( ie, what you put on iso ) 
+ - based on what criteria
+   - time based ?
+   - regular snapshot ?
+   - features based ?
+- how to decide what packages are upgraded day to day
+  - what criteria for what kind of upgrade ( version upgrade, patch
+upgrade )
+  - what procedure for upgrade ( test stage, direct upgrade ? )
+  - for how long 
+  - how are updates built ( ie, against what tree ) 
+- what packages are not upgraded , unless there is a release, if there
+is one
+  - what criteria warrant the stability of this component
+  - how do we decide it will be upgraded 
+
+Once people are able to produce this document, we will all be able to be
+on the same wavelength.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+