[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Mon Jun 13 14:01:37 CEST 2011

Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> schrieb am 12.06.2011
+> 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 )
+That's kind of a hard decison. I don't know if a 6 month cycle would 
+not put too much stress on the dev/packager community. But 12 months 
+are a bit much for the hordes of impatient users usually residing in 
+the forums.
+So I would - for now - prefer option 2, 9 months seeming a reasonable 
+time span.
+
+Especially since we would always be able to change that cycle to 
+something more fitting.
+
+As to the "rolling" and the "lts" discussion. I think it's something 
+for the future. We first have to see, how much manpower we really have, 
+to maintain the distro.
+
+I woul then kind of like the idea of a special rolling repo like 
+debian testing or suse tumbleweed.
+
+Oliver
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