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

Sun Oct 17 09:56:10 CEST 2010

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:15:30 -0400, Fernando Parra <gato2707 at yahoo.com.mx> wrote:
+
+
+> Well the ball is on the air. The Mageia Server should be a Rolling Ligth distro, yes or no?
+
+The problem I've experienced with the current Mandriva release cycle
+is with one friend, who has a slow system.  It took 13 hours to go
+ from 2010.0 to 2010.1, even though (I'm guessing) the bulk of the files
+being downloaded were identical (except for the release number, and
+date of build), to what he already had.
+
+The same upgrade only took a couple of hours, on my system.  He has a
+faster internet connection, but a much slower computer.  I thought the
+faster download would be more important than the speed of the system,
+so I mistakenly gave him a 4 hour guesstimate.
+
+I'm not a pc developer, so I don't know why things are being done the
+way they are, but expecting a user to spend half a day updating, every
+six months (or year), really annoys new users. My background is ibm
+370 asm, cobol, pl/1, fortran, mark iv, roscoe, tso, db2, ims dc/db, etc.
+
+I know enough c, perl, python, etc., that I can sometimes figure out
+where the problem is, (when submitting bug reports), but I don't know
+enough to put together rpm packages, or where to start, to learn how
+to do so.
+
+Regards, Dave Hodgins
+