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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion</H1>
<B>Michael Scherer</B>
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<PRE>Le lundi 13 juin 2011 à 14:01 +0200, Oliver Burger a écrit :
><i> Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>> schrieb am 12.06.2011
</I>><i> > Proposal 1:
</I>><i> > 6 months release cycle -> 12 months life cycle
</I>><i> > ( Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva < 2010.1 && Mandriva != 2006.0 )
</I>><i> >
</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 )
</I>><i> That's kind of a hard decison. I don't know if a 6 month cycle would
</I>><i> not put too much stress on the dev/packager community. But 12 months
</I>><i> are a bit much for the hordes of impatient users usually residing in
</I>><i> the forums.
</I>><i> So I would - for now - prefer option 2, 9 months seeming a reasonable
</I>><i> time span.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Especially since we would always be able to change that cycle to
</I>><i> something more fitting.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> As to the "rolling" and the "lts" discussion. I think it's something
</I>><i> for the future. We first have to see, how much manpower we really have,
</I>><i> to maintain the distro.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I woul then kind of like the idea of a special rolling repo like
</I>><i> debian testing or suse tumbleweed.
</I>
Well, has someone looked at what they do ?
Debian testing is not a rolling release for users, but it is a base for
the release. And bigger packages updates are slow to migrate, for
example, there is still iceweael/firefox 3.X
<A HREF="http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/iceweasel">http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/iceweasel</A> . So I am not sure that
it will really bring what people want ( as this is not what it was
designed for in the first place ).
Gentoo model is heavily dependent on sources recompilation on user
workstation so not applicable ( even if this is the closest of what
people could want in term of package management ).
I didn't look at the tumbleweed system, but I fear this is highly
dependent on the Suse workflow, so if someone could do the research to
explain clearly what it does for the next discussion, it would surely
help. ( this also mean that people should keep such research for next
discussion and do not mix with the current one )
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Michael Scherer
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