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

Mon Oct 11 17:27:41 CEST 2010

2010/10/6 vfmBOFH <vfmbofh at gmail.com>
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+> 2010/10/1 atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com>
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+>> I'm just wondering if we follow Mandriva's release cycle model. Every
+>> 6th months a release or one year and one release. I think we should
+>> make one release in one year. By doing so devs and translators won't
+>> be in rush in every 6 months. Also there are major changes like
+>> systemd/upstart; those system related things will be more mature in a
+>> year to use. It makes the distro more stable and decraese mirrors
+>> space waste.
+>>
+>> One more thing. Do we follow Mandriva's release naming scheme? I.e. do
+>> we call our first release 2011.x ? I don't like this naming scheme and
+>> suggesting using number of release as naming like Mageia 1.0 or using
+>> code names.
+>>
+>> What's your opinion?
+>>
+>
+> Hi all.
+>
+> At this time, there is a survey asking to the blogdrake's community  what
+> kind of release cycle they prefer. This survey will be active until the
+> weekend and I think this could be an acceptable look about community
+> preferences.
+>
+> We must keep on mind we're creating a user-oriented distro, so we must be
+> stay in touch about their preferences.
+>
+> Cheers
+>
+>
+Hi all again.
+
+As i said, there's the results of the poll published in Blogdrake:
+
+58% of votes are for maintain the same mandriva's release cycle scheme (same
+scheme, not parallel releases) There are several opinions about the
+periodicity of the releases: six months, eight months, annual... all options
+are more or less the same level of preference.
+
+24% has chosen the "Rolling-light" model. as in the traditional model, there
+are opinions that support the annual release, six months or eight months.
+But this option, is dominated by the annual release of the "core".
+
+15% supports the "pure-Rolling" model. There's nothing to say about release
+dates.
+
+Surprisingly, there is also a minority support to a model similar to the
+"Debian way". I must confess that this last option on the poll was started
+as a joke, because Blogdrake's members often suffer "versionitis". But there
+are the votes (3%)...
+
+So, these are the results of the survey. Apparently, the Blogdrake's
+community is closer to a model "release + backports".
+
+I think it should be noted (as far as possible) the preferences of the
+community, in addition to technical and logistical constraints. Maybe with
+similar polls in other local communities?
+
+Cheers.
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