[Mageia-discuss] Long Term Support Policy

Tue Jan 31 21:30:42 CET 2012

On 01/31/2012 03:03 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 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/
+>
+OK, thanks to both of you. If the issue resurfaces it would be great to 
+post the discussion on the forum and this list so that the greatest 
+number of users can share their opinions with those who make it happen. 
+Much like the poll, it would help allocate limited dev/packager 
+resources to where it does the most good.
+
+Jeff
+