[Mageia-dev] Summary of the release cycle decision

Thu Jul 7 13:03:07 CEST 2011

On 07/07/11 06:07, Remco Rijnders wrote:
+> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 07:47:49PM -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:
+>> On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:44:07 -0400, Michael scherer <misc at zarb.org>
+>> wrote:
+>>
+>>> 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.
+>>
+>> Wasn't there a request some time ago to consider releasing just before
+>> the end of a month
+>> so people with monthly limits could choose to use up their current
+>> month's limit, or wait,
+>> depending on how close they were to the limit?
+>
+> I don't recall seeing such a discussion... but I think we are now
+> drifting too far off... I think the number of persons for which this is
+> an issue is really limited and any date that we pick will be somewhat
+> arbitrarily.
+>
+
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984
+
+I believe that monthly download quotas are quite common in some 
+countries, although the "month" to which the quota applies is not always 
+a calendar month. My quota, for example, is re-set on my billing date, 
+which is not the first day of the month.
+
+I have no idea how many people have quotas that renew on the first of 
+the month.
+
+Jim
+
+