[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Tue Jun 14 22:27:39 CEST 2011

Op dinsdag 14 juni 2011 18:08:17 schreef Patricia Fraser:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> 2c from the marcomm team...
+> 
+> > Proposal 1:
+> > 6 months release cycle -> 12 months life cycle
+> > ( Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva < 2010.1 && Mandriva != 2006.0 )
+> > 
+> > Proposal 2:
+> > 9 months release cycle -> 18 months life cycle
+> > ( ~ opensuse and the one we used for Mageia 1 )
+> > 
+> > Proposal 3:
+> > 12 months release cycle -> 24 months life cycle
+> > ( Mandriva > 2010.1 )
+> 
+> The only reason for marcomm to take a position is that a release is a
+> nice hook on which to hang another round of publicity.
+> 
+> I think 9 months is good; it gives us a good amount of time to plan
+> whatever marketing/comms work is needed for release time, but it's
+> not too long so we fall out of the public consciousness altogether.
+> 
+> And there are other things about us to publicise besides releases, so
+> we can fill in the gaps nicely!
+> 
+> Cheers,
+
+ah yes, i didn't think about this at all... this alone is enough reason to do 
+a proper release cycle (instead of the rolling releases which seemed to have 
+found a way in this thread)
+
+a +3 is in order here.
+