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<H1>[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?</H1>
<B>nicolas vigier</B>
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<I>Sat Oct 2 02:09:47 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, 01 Oct 2010, Olivier Méjean wrote:
><i> Le vendredi 1 octobre 2010 21:38:14, nicolas vigier a écrit :
</I>><i> > On Fri, 01 Oct 2010, Olivier Méjean wrote:
</I>><i> > > What about a rolling distribution ? As an user (just plain user) i do not
</I>><i> > > think that installing a distribution is a goal, just a mean to use my
</I>><i> > > computer, so i wish i could not spend time installing a distribution
</I>><i> > > every 6 months or every year.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > And you prefer to spend time to update your distribution every day instead
</I>><i> > of every year ?
</I>><i> >
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</I>><i> I update my distribution if not every day every week each time there is an
</I>><i> update, but moreover i need to update every 6 months if i want to have latest
</I>><i> versions. So right now the point is updating every day and upgrading to new
</I>><i> version every 6 months (and truely, i am still using 2010).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The question of time is a wrong question, i spend time upgrading every day
</I>><i> (well just clicking the applet, typing password and let's go !)
</I>
Security updates are different, they usually only do the minimal changes
required to fix bugs, so updating is not supposed to cause troubles
with other unexpected changes.
><i>
</I>><i> So i would not like the same for Mageia. It is a new project, we shall not
</I>><i> need to re-take everything from Mandriva, but rather innovate and there i
</I>><i> guess there is a way to innovate. Maybe a core part of the distribution could
</I>><i> be in fixed release, the rest in rolling release.
</I>
This rolling release already exists, it's called the backport
repository. But don't expect the same stability as the fixed release,
you can't have both.
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