[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Mon Jun 13 00:06:11 CEST 2011

12.06.2011 23:46, Michael Scherer kirjutas:
+> Proposal 1:
+> 6 months release cycle ->  12 months life cycle
+> ( Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva<  2010.1&&  Mandriva != 2006.0 )
+>
+> Proposal 2:
+> 9 months release cycle ->  18 months life cycle
+> ( ~ opensuse and the one we used for Mageia 1 )
+>
+> Proposal 3:
+> 12 months release cycle ->  24 months life cycle
+> ( Mandriva>  2010.1 )
+ From those options i would go with the second one. Third is way too much wanted from users 
+(and first has too short life cycle). They are always eager for new stuff and waiting one 
+year ain't option for them. We could also try to have some LTS versions. But in a bit 
+different manner than Ubuntu. Like if we notice that some release is good and stable we 
+could extend its support period (ie mdv2008.1 was really stabel and also mdv2010.1 was 
+pretty good - for me neither had too many problems and i would have keeped 2008.1 for longer 
+but its support ended).
+
+One more thing i didn't like with Mageia 1. Official launch date that you know is coming and 
+you see that not all things are ready for prime time but you go anyway as there is launch 
+date announced. Ubuntu has failed with that at least few times.
+Debian (Mozilla somewhat too) does better job here. They don't release if they see critical 
+problems and they don't announce release too far away.
+In that hurry we probably missed ATI graphics problem and could have solved it better.
+
+Maybe we should try to have 9 months but if it will be 10 with more stable release i would 
+go with 10 (or mabye final freeze in 8 months and then we'll see how fast we can make it 
+stable).
+
+(And we have to keep up the good job with upgrading smoothness - in the future it must be 
+tested even more, that way users who want longer cycle will complain less if they can 
+upgrade their system w/o big problems.)
+
+--
+my 0.02€ (or a bit more :P)
+Sander
+
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