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

Thu Oct 7 12:42:58 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-07 04:55, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
+> 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
+>
+
+Merci Romain:
+
+This should help a lot. So perhaps a return to this discussion later (a 
+a new thread!), with a reference to the wiki page for devs and users 
+alike? Then Mageia will get a better feel for what is the "hoped" 
+expectation from the devs and users? If people in the new thread were to 
+argue a statement, we could then offer them the
+
+ > http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=rollingdebate
+
+page as reference.
+
+Sounds great!
+
+Marc
+
+