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

Thu Oct 14 06:46:31 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-14 00:20, Tux99 a écrit :
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+>
+> 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
+>
+
+Thanks for posting the site Tux99. There was talk of more user groups 
+doing the poll/survey. Does anyone know if this is being done? Great 
+data for the devs to consider.
+
+Marc
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