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

Thu Oct 7 03:35:50 CEST 2010

Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> On 5 October 2010 19:53, Tux 99<tux99-mga at uridium.org>  wrote:
+>    
+>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Ahmad Samir wrote:
+>>
+>>      
+>>> I looked at the description that Michael gave. And I think I know what
+>>> a rolling distro is having Cooker and all :). light/heavy makes no
+>>> sense here.
+>>>        
+>> I give up, i'm not sure if it's a communication problem or if you are
+>> simply pretending not to understand to wind us up.
+>>      
+Actually, Ahmad is not the only one who doesn't seem to understand.
+Currently with Mandriva you can update to newer versions of an 
+application, which often entails updating a large number of packages.  I 
+don't see what this so-called rolling distro would accomplish.
+
+> Well, according to you I don't understand what you're saying, and also
+> Michael doesn't understand what you're saying, but maybe it's
+> coincidence?
+>
+> I can only speak for myself though, IMHO, a rolling distro model
+> wouldn't work well in Mageia. It'll mean more work for packagers and
+> instead of packagers
+> concentrating/working-more/giving-more-of-their-free-time before a
+> release is pushed to polish their packages / fix critical bugs in
+> them, the workload will increase throughout the whole year, because
+> new versions are released all the time by upstream.
+>    
+I agree
+>>> It's not I'll-work-my-own-way-and-do-what-I-want, any packager can do
+>>> so in his own repo/distro. There'll be rules which should be followed
+>>> even in a community-driven distro, otherwise it'll be chaos.
+>>>        
+>> Sure, guidelines on how to package, but not on what particular package a
+>> specific packager has to package otherwise it wouldn't be a fun project
+>> but rather unpaid drudge work.
+> I was mainly talking about major version upgrades in stable releases,
+> whether they go to backports or updates, that'll be according to the
+> policy the project leaders agree on. Packaging policies should always
+> be used, to maintain the quality of the packages in the distro.
+>    
+Right - unless we want Mageia to be known as a hacker's distro :/
+> FWIW the argument that a rolling distro will cause less mirror size is
+> a bit wrong, main/updates + main/backports are always much smaller
+> than main/release, the same goes for contrib (though contrib/release
+> is bigger than all other repos put together).
+>    
+That reminds me of another point.  (Off topic, I know)
+The idea of having a core group of essential applications, and putting 
+everything else (except non-free) into contrib would make the size of 
+contrib even more unbalanced.
+
+- André (andre999)
+