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

Tue Oct 5 17:41:54 CEST 2010

Le mardi 5 octobre 2010 16:27:20, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> On 5 October 2010 16:21, Olivier Méjean <omejean at yahoo.fr> wrote:
+> > 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 ?
+> 
+> Really? they wouldn't be interested in security updates at all?
+
+I just say that updating is not something imposed, you are free to update or 
+not to update, you are free to just install security updates. Either under 
+fixed or rolling no one is imposed to do updates. When reading the topic i get 
+the feeling that some think that rolling distro means to be forced to do 
+updates.
+
+> 
+> >> 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
+> 
+> And nothing breaks? no critical apps get broken in that model?
+> 
+> Personally I haven't use PCLinuxOS before, so can't tell for sure; my
+> guess would be yes, stuff break because new versions are prone to
+> introduce regressions. Note that this happens in cooker, which is
+> indeed a rolling distro.
+> 
+
+From what i've heard (mainly former users of Mandriva who switched to PCLOS 
+because they did not want to change their distro every 6 months while wishing 
+to have up-to-date softwares) there is no major break.
+
+Rolling distro does not mean no test for updates or no development version.
+
+I find it odd for a user llike me to read that we can have a rolling 
+distribution unstable, but we can't have a stable rolling distribution
+
+Olivier
+