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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion</H1>
<B>Renaud MICHEL</B>
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<I>Mon Jun 13 01:56:22 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Hello
On Sunday 12 June 2011 at 22:46, Michael Scherer wrote :
><i> To simplify the discussion, the proposals are all based on the fact that
</I>><i> 2 or 3 releases could be supported at a time. We could have different
</I>><i> schemes for that ( LTS every X release ( ubuntu ), different level of
</I>><i> support ( mandriva )), but as this is a slightly different discussion,
</I>><i> let's assume 2 supported releases for now, and let's discuss later for
</I>><i> that ( ie next week, once this one is finished )
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</I>><i> And roughly, to start the discussion, we have 3 potential releases
</I>><i> cycles, based on all inputs we had :
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</I>><i> Proposal 1:
</I>><i> 6 months release cycle -> 12 months life cycle
</I>><i> ( Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva < 2010.1 && Mandriva != 2006.0 )
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</I>><i> Proposal 2:
</I>><i> 9 months release cycle -> 18 months life cycle
</I>><i> ( ~ opensuse and the one we used for Mageia 1 )
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Proposal 3:
</I>><i> 12 months release cycle -> 24 months life cycle
</I>><i> ( Mandriva > 2010.1 )
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From a long time mandriva (and now mageia) user POV, for myself I was quite
fine with 6 month release cycle, but at work I'd rather not update too
frequently and same goes for the rest of the family who generally don't care
much for newer versions. And I know that for some people, a big upgrade
every 6 month is a lot of work (and skipping a release is more risky).
So I think either proposal #2 or #3 would do, my preference depending on how
much could be backported to the latest stable release.
What I mean is, if it is possible to have backports of newer releases for
big projects, like KDE (and other DEs), libreoffice, firefox, samba
(important at work), ..., then I am fine with a 1 year release cycle of
proposal #3.
If the maintainer of such big projects (especially the DEs) think it would
be too hard to backports newer versions to the 8-10 months old stack of the
latest stable release (as I have seen recently such discussions on KDE MLs),
then I would prefer proposal #2 to not be lacking behind too much.
cheers
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Renaud Michel
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