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

Thu Oct 7 10:55:02 CEST 2010

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 07:34, Gustavo Giampaoli
+<giampaoli.gustavo at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Could it be possible to use the same schema that Mandriva use + one
+> "LTS" with three years of support?
+>
+> Regular releases every six months with 18 month support.
+>
+> But we could include this "kind of" LTS with 36 month.
+>
+> Difference with Ubuntu will be that our LTS will be launched only
+> after the previous LTS ends its cycle.
+>
+> Something like this: http://img819.imageshack.us/i/mageiareleases.jpg/
+>
+> My doubt is will Magea community be able to handle the support for
+> four releases at the same time in semesters when it happen?
+>
+> If you add the LTS, should regular release support be reduced to 12
+> months? This way, you'll never have more than 3 releases "alive" at
+> the same time.
+>
+>
+>
+> Gustavo Giampaoli (aka tavillo1980)
+>
+It has been posted before but I guess it's a good read for anyone
+willing to push an argument in this debate:
+http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/a-story-about-updates-and-people/
+
+It is a nice post explaining the existing different point of views
+(bonus to clever points about updates frequency and presentation).
+
+Now, in the same vein, let's put the discussion at rest a little and
+have each interested person write down an article with arguments for
+the why's and how's. So here is a page for that:
+http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=rollingdebate
+
+Please write down your point of view, detail it as explained on the
+wiki page, link it and a week from now, everyone involved in the
+discussion can have a look at it for a summary.
+
+That won't trigger a change decision at once (way too soon anyway, we
+have to roll a first release to assess our new build system and
+infrastructure and organisation) but it may at least lay down all
+arguments and allow to have a better view of what everyone understand,
+agree on definitions and see what is really at stake here. For later
+reference, discussion and decision.
+
+Thanks a lot.
+
+Cheers,
+
+Romain
+