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

Thu Oct 7 03:36:56 CEST 2010

Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 20:17 +0200, 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.
+>>>
+>>>        
+>> 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?
+>>      
+> Well, let's try to be constructive.
+>
+> For all people interested into having a rolling release or a core based
+> distribution, I propose that they write a document explaining :
+>
+> - the release process ( ie, what you put on iso )
+>   - based on what criteria
+>     - time based ?
+>     - regular snapshot ?
+>     - features based ?
+> - how to decide what packages are upgraded day to day
+>    - what criteria for what kind of upgrade ( version upgrade, patch
+> upgrade )
+>    - what procedure for upgrade ( test stage, direct upgrade ? )
+>    - for how long
+>    - how are updates built ( ie, against what tree )
+> - what packages are not upgraded , unless there is a release, if there
+> is one
+>    - what criteria warrant the stability of this component
+>    - how do we decide it will be upgraded
+>
+> Once people are able to produce this document, we will all be able to be
+> on the same wavelength.
+>    
+Good idea :)
+
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