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

Thu Oct 7 02:34:10 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-06 20:02, vfmBOFH a écrit :
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+> 2010/10/7 Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com
+> <mailto:marc at marcpare.com>>
+>
+>     Le 2010-10-06 17:10, vfmBOFH a écrit :
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+>
+>
+>         2010/10/1 atilla ontas
+>         <tarakbumba at gmail.com
+>         <mailto:tarakbumba at gmail.com>
+>         <mailto:tarakbumba at gmail.com
+>         <mailto:tarakbumba at gmail.com>>>
+>
+>
+>             I'm just wondering if we follow Mandriva's release cycle
+>         model. Every
+>             6th months a release or one year and one release. I think we
+>         should
+>             make one release in one year. By doing so devs and
+>         translators won't
+>             be in rush in every 6 months. Also there are major changes like
+>             systemd/upstart; those system related things will be more
+>         mature in a
+>             year to use. It makes the distro more stable and decraese
+>         mirrors
+>             space waste.
+>
+>             One more thing. Do we follow Mandriva's release naming
+>         scheme? I.e. do
+>             we call our first release 2011.x ? I don't like this naming
+>         scheme and
+>             suggesting using number of release as naming like Mageia 1.0
+>         or using
+>             code names.
+>
+>             What's your opinion?
+>
+>
+>         Hi all.
+>
+>         At this time, there is a survey asking to the blogdrake's community
+>           what kind of release cycle they prefer. This survey will be active
+>         until the weekend and I think this could be an acceptable look about
+>         community preferences.
+>
+>         We must keep on mind we're creating a user-oriented distro, so
+>         we must
+>         be stay in touch about their preferences.
+>
+>         Cheers
+>
+>
+>     Where is the survey?
+>
+>     Marc
+>
+>
+> Sorry, the word is "poll" :P
+>
+> Blogdrake is the mandriva's oficial spanish-spoken forum.
+>
+> You can find the poll at the frontpage: http://blogdrake.net
+
+IMHO, I think such a poll could be mis-leading as it supposes that users 
+will have experienced "rolling releases", "light rolling release", "LTS" 
+and the Mandriva "update/upgrade". If enough people vote, the vote will 
+show the Mandriva way as being preferred as, again, most users do not 
+have that much experience in different upgrade/update methods. It will 
+be a closer result if fewer people take part in it.
+
+I think the distro dev's would be in a better position to explain the 
+pro's and con's of these different types and explain to we users the 
+amount of work/development time needed to maintain these.
+
+Marc
+
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