Michael Scherer <misc@zarb.org> schrieb am 12.06.2011

> Proposal 1:

> 6 months release cycle -> 12 months life cycle

> ( Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva < 2010.1 && Mandriva != 2006.0 )

>

> Proposal 2:

> 9 months release cycle -> 18 months life cycle

> ( ~ opensuse and the one we used for Mageia 1 )

>

> Proposal 3:

> 12 months release cycle -> 24 months life cycle

> ( Mandriva > 2010.1 )

That's kind of a hard decison. I don't know if a 6 month cycle would not put too much stress on the dev/packager community. But 12 months are a bit much for the hordes of impatient users usually residing in the forums.

So I would - for now - prefer option 2, 9 months seeming a reasonable time span.

Especially since we would always be able to change that cycle to something more fitting.

As to the "rolling" and the "lts" discussion. I think it's something for the future. We first have to see, how much manpower we really have, to maintain the distro.

I woul then kind of like the idea of a special rolling repo like debian testing or suse tumbleweed.

Oliver