[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Tue Jun 14 17:02:40 CEST 2011

2011/6/14 Christiaan Welvaart <cjw at daneel.dyndns.org>
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+> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Thorsten van Lil wrote:
+>
+>  I don't want a full rolling release, because of the listed disadvantages.
+>> So, if you ask me what is "wrong" with Arch, I would say:
+>> * due to the rolling release, it's nearly vanilla. This doesn't match
+>> requirements of Mageia
+>> * no innovations (because of vanilla)
+>> * a rolling core system has a negative correlation with it's stability
+>> * heavy work load
+>> * ...
+>>
+>> So, I don't ask for a copy of Arch nor any other distribution. I asked
+>> (although it wasn't my idea) for something new. An compromise: a light
+>> rolling release.
+>>
+>
+> This is exactly what release + updates + backports can be, the only
+> requirement is enough people to do the work. I do not understand what people
+> are saying about backports being "unsupported". IMHO we should either have
+> backports that are supported, with fixes for security issues and important
+> bugs, or no backports.
+>
+
+I guess because of Mandriva policy. We did provide backports but it was
+explicitely said to be unsupported. "Use it at your own risks"
+We may have to rewrite  this and make things clear
+
+>
+>
+>    Christiaan
+>
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+-- 
+Anne
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