[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Mon Jun 13 19:30:57 CEST 2011

I like the idea of releasing when ready. Its done when the team thinks its
+ready and not because its being demanded by end users. In Linux Mint this
+does alot of good because of having to clean up after ubuntu so much. The
+releases are much more stable and polished. The way clement lefabre likes
+it. And everyone who uses it is usually satisfied with the end product.
+As for being in the news more, we dont have to put out a release just to be
+able blog about whats going on in the mageia community and remind everyone
+why mageia is special. But this must be the case because theres rarely any
+new news posted in mageia blog unless a release is coming out. Thats getting
+about as lame as these messages in this mailing list telling people they
+sent their message to the mailing list wrong.
+What is this distro really about? One upping mandriva and following the same
+mechanical routines they did to piss you guys off, or building a real
+community distribution of gnu/linux that cares more about keeping in touch
+with the community than they do about the way someone new sent a mailing
+list message. Theres more to a linux community then mailing lists.
+At first I was excited about using mageia, and being a part of the
+community. Now im dissappointed because I see how you treat people that are
+not on the team. Basically like their opinions
+(that you ask for) dont matter, and you are only concerned with the proper
+submission of mailing lists messages. Get someone on the blogs and start
+talking to the rest of the community the way they deserve. I agree with the
+gentleman leaving the mailing list. This isn't worth sticking around for.
+Time to remember why you started mageia in the first place.
+On Jun 13, 2011 12:51 PM, "Ron" <corbintechboy at yahoo.com> wrote:
+> I will say my part and I'm gone...
+> I don't understand why everyone is acting like a rolling release is going
+to put so much strain on the project. What is so hard about developing in
+one place and allowing the updates to trickle down is so hard?
+> It almost seems to me that you want to ask the opinion of people, but
+don't want to hear.
+> And what is this posting here? I don't even know how to use this thing and
+yet I had to signup to get my voice heard because this is the way you want
+to do things? I don't understand where the whole community fits into this
+here right now, I think I actually say a lot when I say that many people
+want a rolling release.... It just seems the developers will have the way
+here... Why ask in the first place? Really?
+> I am leaving the list and sorry about the HTML in my emails, must be a
+yahoo thing because I did not use HTML... Again I don't know how to use this
+thing and should not have been forced to.
+> I would also say that I, for 1 will not be staying if you are going to do
+a release cycle only... I have loads of options if I just want snapshots of
+what's going on in the Linux world.... Arch gives me so much more and I had
+hopes of switching to this with a release model that made sense... But it
+seems we won't and we will just become yet another XXX release cycle
+distribution with no clear anything that sets us apart from X.
+> On you, I'm gone and thanks for hearing me and sorry if my postings were
+done wrong....
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