[Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

Fri Nov 26 12:23:58 CET 2010

On 26 November 2010 12:21, Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
+> Le 2010-11-26 03:14, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+>>
+>> 2010/11/26 andre999<andr55 at laposte.net>:
+>>>
+>>> MIhail Papadopoulos a écrit :
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> Why not going down the right path: A rolling release cycle would be
+>>>> simply
+>>>> great. After all, this isn't a commercial distribution, so it shouldn't
+>>>> be
+>>>> a total noob Ubuntu-style mishmash.
+>>>>
+>>>
+>>> Why ?
+>>> What do you mean by "rolling" ?
+>>> How would it improve things for the user ?
+>>> How would it improve things for the developers/packages/translators who
+>>> provide Mageia ?
+>>> What are the costs ?
+>>> What are the benefits ?
+>>> And how does that compare with the alternatives ?
+>>
+>> This has already been discussed in length in one of the lists, very
+>> early, IIRC ist was early October . There were even polls in
+>> communities about.
+>>
+>
+> Yes it was. I think it will re-surface again due to Ubuntu's recent
+> advertising of going to a "rolling distro" scheme. We may have to go through
+> another round of these comments.
+>
+> Do we have an archive list of the user mailist where we can refer people to
+> continue on that particular thread? Are the mailists archived?
+>
+> Marc
+> Marketing Team Member
+>
+>
+
+You mean the "rumours" that Ubuntu will switch to a rolling distro
+model? http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ubuntu-Rolling-release-rumours-wrong-1142040.html
+
+(thanks to misc posting the link on IRC yesterday).
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+