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<H1>[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?</H1>
<B>Maarten Vanraes</B>
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<I>Wed Oct 6 08:25:24 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>Op woensdag 06 oktober 2010 01:24:39 schreef Tux99:
><i> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, nicolas vigier wrote:
</I>><i> > > 1) I'd never use Mandriva on a server, because of the short support
</I>><i> > > period, a server OS requires at least 4-5 years support lifecycles
</I>><i> > > (I'm not talking about MES here, just the normal Mandriva variants)
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</I>><i> > But you can still use it while it is supported, and upgrade to a newer
</I>><i> > realease when it's no more supported.
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</I>><i> Are you serious? Upgrading a server every 18 months?
</I>><i> No thanks, I rather use a distro that has at least a 4-5 year support
</I>><i> lifecycle for that, than waste my time with unnecessary upgrades of a
</I>><i> server.
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I'd rather have that too
><i> > > 3) I mentioned earlier that the packager would need to use good
</I>><i> > > judgement and not include major incompatible version changes
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > There is always some small (and sometimes big) incompatibilities with
</I>><i> > new versions. Not always known even by the developers. How should the
</I>><i> > packager know about all the incompatibilities ?
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</I>><i> Correction:
</I>><i> There is always A SMALL RISK of incompatibilities with new versions.
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</I>><i> Anyone who wants next to zero risk will choose Centos rather than
</I>><i> Mandriva/Mageia anyway, so for the kind of distro we are doing
</I>><i> providing updated packages is a much bigger attraction for potential
</I>><i> users, than the small risk of an incompatibility.
</I>
This is non-sensical; i will never choose Centos for a server, if i was to
have a bug, where would i go with it???
I don't want to have unnecessary risks for my server.
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