[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Wed Jun 15 00:58:18 CEST 2011

Le mercredi 15 juin 2011 à 03:23 +0900, Jehan Pagès a écrit :
+> Hi,
+
+> 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).
+
+I have updated my laptop from Fedora 11 to 15 using yum ( with all
+intermediary release ).
+I have updated several debian from sarge to lenny ( like 20 servers )
+using apt-get. 
+I updated my home server from Mandriva 2006.0 to 2010.2 ( with all
+intermediary releases ), and even downgraded it the day I half updated
+it to Mageia by error. We also did for the 3 zarb.org servers, among
+others.
+I updated the laptop of my girlfriend from Hardy Heron to Lucid Lynx.
+
+So where are all those distros that requires to use a cd, since I
+successfully avoided it for 4 popular distributions ( Debian, Fedora,
+Mandriva, Ubuntu ) ?
+
+If we want to have update with cd, we have the required software. We
+just need people to test before the release. 
+
+Now, of course, if people could stop saying "I reinstalled, it is safer"
+and just filled bug reports so we can fix the real issue, it would
+surely help.
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+