[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Mon Jun 13 20:14:07 CEST 2011

2011/6/13 Lee Forest <lee8oi at gmail.com>
+
+> 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.
+>
+Well this is theway it seems we are going to, some people proposing 9 months
+release depending on release dates of main softwares. Anyway whatever the
+choice, it's obvious that we will not release final one if  this is not
+stable enough.
+
+> 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
+>
+Not at all. everyone can subscribe mailing- lists. The point is Mageia is a
+young project and we cannot afford for now at least to spread efforts on
+forums and mailing-lists and blogs... People still sleep during the night.
+It may not be perfect but it's a start. Our points is just to try to get all
+opinions in a same place, that's all.
+
+> (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.
+>
+Of course we are opened to any of your proposals and ideas and contributions
+to improve all this :)
+
+Cheers
+
+
+
+> 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....
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Anne
+http://www.mageia.org
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