[Mageia-dev] Summary of the release cycle decision

Wed Jul 6 14:44:07 CEST 2011

Hi
+
+So after reading all the feedback on the topic of release, here
+are the conclusion of the discussion made by Anne and me :
+
+
+- some people have expressed some concern about the fixed nature of the time based release.
+While it was obvious, we do not plan to release with serious bug, especially if they cannot be
+corrected after the release. And the whole question is to decide what is serious or not. I guess we can 
+do some more formal review of bugs in the release period.
+
+- despites trying to focus the discussion about the release cycle, the topic of the
+support was touched. However, without more data, we couldn't evaluate much the requirement
+in term of ressources. 
+Yet, several people proposed to follow the ubuntu model with LTS, or the suse one
+with evergreen. As said before, this topic will be discussed soon ( likely once the backports one
+are finished ), and we hope to be able to have more information since official support 
+was started. While the proposal is not even started, I guess it would be in the form of 
+having 1 distribution support for a longer time every X release, 
+and to try to take this in account for the features and softwares selected.
+
+- several persons on forum have also expressed the need for having a rock 
+solid release, which "simply" translate to have enough test and bugfixes. Yet, this 
+conflict with what some others persons wanted, ie newer softwares ( which by definition are 
+less tested, and so may be more subject to bugs ). How to solve
+the dilemna is yet to be found, even if we have started with the current backport discussion.
+The previous point about support could be also relevant to such issues, and we will take this in account.
+
+- and to finish, after reading everything the consensus seemed to be around having 9 months 
+for developpement was enough for a majority of people.
+
+Since we took one month for various things ( such as discussing everything ), we propose
+the next release to be on 4th april, and start the cycle today. This is in the middle
+of the week on purpose, to avoid the weekend.
+
+There is no exact planning yet ( so do not ask for now ), but it will be sent for next 
+week ( if everything goes well ). Once the planning is decided, a proper announce ( blog, forums,
+etc ) should be done.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+