[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Tue Jun 14 20:23:53 CEST 2011

Hi,
+
+On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> and shouldn't be used
+>> to bring the half of your system up to date.
+>
+> The word "stable release" implies "doesn't change much"; so a new
+> version of vlc or wine isn't a problem, but don't put "updating to
+> GNOME3 or KDE 4.8 in Mageia 1" and "stable" in the same sentence, they
+> don't fit..... such _huge_ changes need to happen in a development
+> release so that the niggles (which are bound to show up) can be ironed
+> out so that the distro becomes "stable" and ready to be released
+> (Mageia 2).
+
+I agree this could be a way to do it, which would maybe scare less
+some people of the "so-feared rolling", but there still would need a
+way to update "simply" one's installation without having to download a
+big iso with 90% in it we won't care in an upgrade (where we have
+updated most of the other packages, non critical, periodically through
+rolling release).
+
+I think it is so insane so many distributions are still with an
+"update by CD" logics (even though it is partly modernized with
+dropping the iso into an usb stick, or even simply mounting it
+directly, I think that is still so backwards that this is the major
+advertized way to do it).
+
+Jehan
+