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

Wed Oct 6 15:06:15 CEST 2010

On Wednesday, 6 October 2010 07:15:15 Raphaël Jadot wrote:
+> 2010/10/6 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
+> > I do. I even update them more often. And you would be surprised to see
+> > that it doesn't create as much problem as you can think, if the sysadmin
+> > is competent enough.
+> 
+> However many small companies can't pay a competent enough sysadmin.
+> 
+> It's why they often choose what seems for them the most simple solution.
+> 
+> I certainly don't know which is the best for a distro, but as long as
+> there will be so much sweat and "fear" about upgrading a distro, there
+> will be this recurrent discussion.
+
+Without changing anything else, just changing from a "release, with QA'd 
+updates, and non-QA'd backports-based distribution" to a "rolliing release", 
+IMHO you are just changing the problem from "fear about upgrading distro" to 
+"fear about installing or upgrading any package". The risk moves from being a 
+biannual event with release notes and errata, to a constant event with no fixed 
+answers.
+
+If you disagree, run cooker for > 6 months with 'urpmi --auto-update' in 
+cron.daily. If you never have *any* issues, without any breakage at all, I 
+might believe you.
+
+(I have run cooker on my "production desktop" for a number of years, but not 
+in the past 15 months as I haven't been able to risk breakage due to time 
+pressure - plus I'm a bit short on bandwidth)
+
+> I know that they have not as much users as mandriva do, and also they
+> are young, but unity linux started with the idea of a small core with
+> long term release, and branches that add packages such as desktop, wm,
+> de etc. that can have a short term release.
+
+Remember of course that Unity leverages the *existing* (source) packages from 
+Mandriva. However, I haven't actually used a Unity release, so I am not sure 
+how well upgrading has worked over a > 1 year period.
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+