[Mageia-discuss] Long Term Support Policy

Tue Jan 31 21:03:22 CET 2012

2012/1/31 Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be>:
+> Op dinsdag 31 januari 2012 19:35:04 schreef imnotpc:
+>> The discussion about the poll raised the question: Does Mageia have a
+>> policy regarding the lifetime of a release? I looked around the site and
+>> didn't see anything. I realize Mageia is a new distro and this isn't an
+>> issue yet, but since I run servers I'd really like to know how long I
+>> can expect general updates and more importantly bug and security updates.
+>>
+>> Jeff
+>
+> IIRC, it was talked about before. A lot of us want to do this, but we weren't
+> sure about the growth of people yet, so we deferred the question until after
+> release of mga2
+>
+> iinm the plan was to support each release for 18months; and possibly have LTS
+> versions. of this none of this is written down yet nor decided, but i expect
+> this discussion to be held again after mga2 is released, since the release
+> time could be discussed too, when the new features for mga3 will be talked
+> about.
+
+Excerpt from the matching blog "Mageia 2: release cycle, support and
+planning", published in July 2011:
+
+"The outcome of our discussions: the release cycle for Mageia will be
+9 months. We think it’s a well-balanced choice, providing an
+up-to-date distribution that’s also stable. It should also give us
+enough time to build the specifications,  develop, package, innovate
+and finalize it.
+
+Each Mageia release will be supported for 18 months. We will have a
+global review of our resources before next release to check that we
+can still provide support according to our first plan. If all is going
+well, then we will think about releasing a LTS (Long Term Support)
+version every 18 months, to be supported for 3 years."
+
+Whole story: http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/07/17/mageia-2-release-cycle-support-and-planning/
+
+-- 
+wobo
+