[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Mon Jun 13 14:19:20 CEST 2011

Le lundi 13 juin 2011 à 14:01 +0200, Oliver Burger a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+Well, has someone looked at what they do ?
+
+Debian testing is not a rolling release for users, but it is a base for
+the release. And bigger packages updates are slow to migrate, for
+example, there is still iceweael/firefox 3.X
+http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/iceweasel . So I am not sure that
+it will really bring what people want ( as this is not what it was
+designed for in the first place ).
+
+Gentoo model is heavily dependent on sources recompilation on user
+workstation so not applicable ( even if this is the closest of what
+people could want in term of package management ).
+
+I didn't look at the tumbleweed system, but I fear this is highly
+dependent on the Suse workflow, so if someone could do the research to
+explain clearly what it does for the next discussion, it would surely
+help. ( this also mean that people should keep such research for next
+discussion and do not mix with the current one )
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+