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

Wed Oct 6 20:50:00 CEST 2010

Le 06/10/2010 20:31, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Le mercredi 06 octobre 2010 à 14:55 -0300, Gustavo Giampaoli a écrit :
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+>>>> So a one year release cycle with lots of app backports (and maybe a kernel
+>>>> backport mid-cycle if there is important new hardware support) is IMHO the
+>>>> best release cycle for 'normal' users.
+>>>>          
+>> Just take a look to Windows XP users. Almost 10 years of bugfixes and
+>> patches almost without any mayor change in the OS. But XP is still on
+>> the road. And it's because you can have the latest software "and"
+>> hardware in your ten years old OS.
+>>
+>> I'm not saying that Mageia should last ten years. But IMHO that "XP
+>> case" is a valid example.
+>>      
+> Sure, when we will have the money of Microsoft, and the team they have
+> for QA, I am sure we will be able to do it too...
+Precisely for that latter reason a fork was not a good idea, in my 
+opinion : better fuse, merge, unite with other distros than create new 
+little projects...
+(sorry, I am going out immediately...)
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