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

Wed Oct 6 04:39:04 CEST 2010

On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:00:46 -0400
+Sinner from the Prairy <sinnerbofh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
+
+> Juan Luis Baptiste wrote:
+> 
+> > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Fernando Parra
+> > <gato2707-/E1597aS9LQGXtTpemXPTA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
+> 
+> >> A different approach could be a "light rolling distro", let me explain. A
+> >> distro with a selected number of programs updated regular as their new
+> >> versions are available.
+> 
+> > That's what backports are for, no need for a "light rolling distro",
+> > just contribute and help doing the backports for different Mageia
+> > versions if you really want them. That's what I do and it was one of
+> > the main reasons to become a contrib packager :)
+> 
+> I totally agree with both Juan Luis Baptiste and Buchan Milne.
+> 
+> No rolling release!
+> 
+> This is just a fancy word.
+> 
+> But then, the "goals" of "rolling release" are already accomplished with the 
+> current Mandriva system, and I hope Mageia will keep this functionality:
+> 
+> backports
+> 
+> Probably, what needs to happen is to publicize more backports for 
+> advanced/cutting edge/rolling users instead of changing something that is 
+> not broken.
+> 
+> Salut,
+> Sinner
+> 
+> That's maybe a solution, backports, but let me be less ambiguous about a different model.
+
+When a expert group are working in a re-engineering process at any company, the first wall that they need to broke is: "Oh, but, this is the way in we work since... ¡and it's works fine for us!
+
+In the same way the backport method (called different as different distros are in this world) is the same since... ¡and it works fine for us!
+
+Mageia are trying to be different than other distros (as I understand). Unfortunately I only have read a lot of answers told me why no (thanks to all of you), but any of them made any improvement to my idea, as well there aren't any alternative way.
+
+When Mandriva was madded first time, its goal was to be a very user friendly distro; a Linux for non technical people. But at now there are a new world with a lot of distros with the same goal. For this reason we must do our new way.
+
+In example:
+
+For the same reasons that I have read here, a lot of users never turn on a backport repository, with hundreds of packages inside it, but maybe if there is another repository called "top 10" or something like that (remember I proposed run a poll), these hypothetical users may turn on that repository.
+
+Are there countries with a expensive rates or a slow dial-up connections? Surely they are more comfortable with Mageia knowing that they don't need to download a 700 MB each six months (surely more if they need to install more applications) cause they only need the next version of...
+
+No other distro has an feature like this, it probably become a better offer in a very fragmented and competitive world of GNU / Linux distros.
+
+I don't want to create any more controversial. I only need one thing of you:
+Before answer me why not. Made a question to your self: What if...?
+
+Regards from Mexico.
+
+-- 
+Fernando Parra <gato2707 at yahoo.com.mx>
+