[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Tue Jun 14 23:19:18 CEST 2011

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+> 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.
+
+Something else: new users (coming to Mageia for the first time)
+*need* a release - they have to have somewhere to start!
+
+Cheers,
+
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