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

Thu Oct 7 13:24:13 CEST 2010

Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 02:34 -0300, Gustavo Giampaoli a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+This would force the upgrade of users if they want to be supported, so
+that's not a good idea.
+
+> 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.
+
+While the reasoning is good, we should first see how much releases can
+be supported when we will be able to start to support one. So before
+that, all projections are moot.
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+