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

Thu Oct 14 06:20:32 CEST 2010

+
+Quote: Fernando Parra wrote on Thu, 14 October 2010 05:59
+>
+> Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
+> > 
+> > We should publicize more Backports.
+> > 
+> 
+> And I shall reply over and over again, backports isn't a
+> solution, maybe it's a technical solution, but it isn't
+> The Solution.
+> 
+> The end users need to do less than now for to get new versions
+> of their favourites applications.
+> 
+> Mageia needs to offer more than other distros, much more, in a
+> different way. If we aren't to be able to make a completely new
+> concept, we are in a serious risk to become in other distro at
+> that sea called GNU / Linux.
+> -- 
+> Fernando Parra <gato2707 at yahoo.com.mx>
+
+I agree with what Fernando says, if we could agree on a release cycle that
+is half way between the fixed release cycle of Mandriva/Ubuntu/Fedora/Suse
+and the rolling release cycle of PClinuxOS/Gentoo, then Mageia would
+attract a lot of interest in the Linux world do to it offering something
+new and compelling rather than the same as everyone else.
+
+The results of the poll on mandrivauser.de seem to indicate a strong wish
+in this direction too, almost half of the voters voted for an annual
+release cycle with a partial rolling release cycle, i.e. exactly what was
+suggested in this thread earlier, a stable core updated once a year (apart
+from security and bug fixes) with new app versions made available during
+the whole year.
+
+http://www.mandrivauser.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=188&t=29694
+
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