[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Mon Jun 13 14:51:54 CEST 2011

Wolfgang Bornath skrev 13.6.2011 15:20:
+> About the cycles:
+>
+> The 9-months seem to be a compromise - but I start to ask why we need
+> such a fixed statement (which it would be, once published). We need a
+> schedule for each cycle, that's true. Without a schedule we would
+> never finish anything. But how about taking 9 months only as a "nice
+> to meet" target, leaving us the option to set a roadmap after setting
+> the specs of the next release - we could then go for a 8 or 10 months
+> roadmap, depending on the specs.
+>
+
+This is somewhat like what I had in my mind to write too, but you beat 
+me to it :)
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+It could allow us to adapt a little for upstream releases.
+But should we then decide that the limit is +/- 1 month ?
+
+Obviously there will still be people complaining that "you waited 10 
+months... if you had extended with ~2 more weeks... "this" or "that"
+package would have been available too... and so on....
+
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+And something not to forget (this is more related to the specs):
+
+If an estimated upstream release of kde/gnome/... seem to fit our
+schedule it _must_ be in Cauldron before version freeze so we
+actually get some test/qa on it and not try to force it in by
+"hey it's released ~x days before final mageia release so it
+  must be added" attitude that tends to pop up at every freeze.
+
+--
+Thomas
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