2010/10/6 vfmBOFH <vfmbofh@gmail.com>


2010/10/1 atilla ontas <tarakbumba@gmail.com>
I'm just wondering if we follow Mandriva's release cycle model. Every
6th months a release or one year and one release. I think we should
make one release in one year. By doing so devs and translators won't
be in rush in every 6 months. Also there are major changes like
systemd/upstart; those system related things will be more mature in a
year to use. It makes the distro more stable and decraese mirrors
space waste.

One more thing. Do we follow Mandriva's release naming scheme? I.e. do
we call our first release 2011.x ? I don't like this naming scheme and
suggesting using number of release as naming like Mageia 1.0 or using
code names.

What's your opinion?

Hi all.

At this time, there is a survey asking to the blogdrake's community  what kind of release cycle they prefer. This survey will be active until the weekend and I think this could be an acceptable look about community preferences.

We must keep on mind we're creating a user-oriented distro, so we must be stay in touch about their preferences.

Cheers


Hi all again.

As i said, there's the results of the poll published in Blogdrake:

58% of votes are for maintain the same mandriva's release cycle scheme (same scheme, not parallel releases) There are several opinions about the periodicity of the releases: six months, eight months, annual... all options are more or less the same level of preference.

24% has chosen the "Rolling-light" model. as in the traditional model, there are opinions that support the annual release, six months or eight months. But this option, is dominated by the annual release of the "core".

15% supports the "pure-Rolling" model. There's nothing to say about release dates.

Surprisingly, there is also a minority support to a model similar to the "Debian way". I must confess that this last option on the poll was started as a joke, because Blogdrake's members often suffer "versionitis". But there are the votes (3%)...

So, these are the results of the survey. Apparently, the Blogdrake's community is closer to a model "release + backports".

I think it should be noted (as far as possible) the preferences of the community, in addition to technical and logistical constraints. Maybe with similar polls in other local communities?

Cheers.