[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Tue Jun 14 02:36:59 CEST 2011

Michael Scherer said on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:31:46AM +0200:
+
+> And I think we can already decide to release 1 week later if a
+> release_critical bug appears. Fedora 15 for example was 2 weeks late,
+> because they changed the release date twice after having seen some
+> problem (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/Schedule ).
+
+I think that the level of flexibility that is really useful. Fixing a
+target is nice for all projects. Now, if a blocking point happens, it's
+wise to delay a bit.
+
+I personaly find ridiculous the Ubuntu approach to release at fixed
+dates, whatever happens, becasue it's 11.04, it should be in April 2011
+!! But then their community is just angry because of the lack of
+quality due to that.
+
+So maybe what would be interesting is to have something like:
+M1-M8: break and fix cauldron with lots of new stuff.
+M8-M8.5: freeze period. Only bug fixes or HW support improvements goes 
+through or mageia tools. In particular, no new KDE, Gnome, LibreO, FF, 
+...
+M8.5-M9: test period. Only bugs found there are fixed. As the cauldron
+is closed, people have more time to upgrage with an already stabilized
+distro, to make it really stable at the 9 months date.
+
+Bruno.
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