<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle? </TITLE> <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20How%20will%20be%20the%20realese%20cycle%3F&In-Reply-To=%3CAANLkTim-bguSu8_W2mRDZqgsuZD0ExFb4-Y%3D%3DHQ4pi_A%40mail.gmail.com%3E"> <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="000836.html"> <LINK REL="Next" HREF="000841.html"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <H1>[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?</H1> <B>Ahmad Samir</B> <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20How%20will%20be%20the%20realese%20cycle%3F&In-Reply-To=%3CAANLkTim-bguSu8_W2mRDZqgsuZD0ExFb4-Y%3D%3DHQ4pi_A%40mail.gmail.com%3E" TITLE="[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?">ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com </A><BR> <I>Tue Oct 5 15:47:20 CEST 2010</I> <P><UL> <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000836.html">[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle? </A></li> <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000841.html">[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle? </A></li> <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> <a href="date.html#838">[ date ]</a> <a href="thread.html#838">[ thread ]</a> <a href="subject.html#838">[ subject ]</a> <a href="author.html#838">[ author ]</a> </LI> </UL> <HR> <!--beginarticle--> <PRE>On 5 October 2010 15:28, Tux99 <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tux99-mga at uridium.org</A>> wrote: ><i> </I>><i> </I>><i> Personally I think the way Mandriva maintains both updates and backports </I>><i> for each release is a waste of resources. </I>><i> </I> How is it a waste? A practical example is the college professor / school teacher (see Fernando Parra post a few emails back); he doesn't want to upgrade the boxes in the lab, he doesn't care if they have the newest/shiniest versions, just that the distro is stable and works(tm). The same applies for a company, servers... etc. We aren't talking only about personal boxes that can break without too much drastic consequences. ><i> I do agree that Mageia should be a semi-rolling distro. </I>><i> </I>><i> By "semi rolling distro" I mean the following: </I>><i> </I>><i> Release a distro every 8-12 months (the exact cyle is not the point I'm </I>><i> debating here, it could be 6 months too, it doesn't mater for the concept </I>><i> I'm trying to explain). </I>><i> </I>><i> Provide updates/security patches for all the basic stuff that has a lot of </I>><i> dependencies (kernel, core libs, kde, gnome, xorg, etc.). </I>><i> </I>><i> Provide newer release rather than backported security patches for all other </I>><i> apps. </I>><i> </I>><i> In other words, backports (rather than backported security fixes) should be </I>><i> the rule for everything apart from the core system stuff that has loads of </I>><i> dependencies. </I>><i> </I>><i> This would reduce the space requirements on the mirrors and it would mean </I>><i> that Mageia is a "rolling distro" for most apps, making it more attractive </I>><i> compared to ubuntu/Fedora/opensuse and at the same time reduce the workload </I>><i> for packagers. </I>><i> </I>><i> </I> Again a rolling distro is something that's not clearly defined. And to be honest, a rolling distro isn't suitable for new or inexperienced users. Simply because you can't guarantee that a new package won't introduce regressions (or totally break an app), in this case an experienced user will know how to revert to an older version, a new or inexperienced user won't. Look at the rolling distros that've been mentioned, Debian or Gentoo, right? would anyone recommend Debian or Gentoo for a new/inexperienced/non-power user? -- Ahmad Samir </PRE> <!--endarticle--> <HR> <P><UL> <!--threads--> <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000836.html">[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle? </A></li> <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000841.html">[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle? </A></li> <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> <a href="date.html#838">[ date ]</a> <a href="thread.html#838">[ thread ]</a> <a href="subject.html#838">[ subject ]</a> <a href="author.html#838">[ author ]</a> </LI> </UL> <hr> <a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev mailing list</a><br> </body></html>