[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Sinner from the Prairy sinnerbofh at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 14:00:46 CEST 2010


Juan Luis Baptiste wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Fernando Parra
> <gato2707 at yahoo.com.mx> wrote:

>> A different approach could be a "light rolling distro", let me explain. A
>> distro with a selected number of programs updated regular as their new
>> versions are available.

> That's what backports are for, no need for a "light rolling distro",
> just contribute and help doing the backports for different Mageia
> versions if you really want them. That's what I do and it was one of
> the main reasons to become a contrib packager :)

I totally agree with both Juan Luis Baptiste and Buchan Milne.

No rolling release!

This is just a fancy word.

But then, the "goals" of "rolling release" are already accomplished with the 
current Mandriva system, and I hope Mageia will keep this functionality:

backports

Probably, what needs to happen is to publicize more backports for 
advanced/cutting edge/rolling users instead of changing something that is 
not broken.

Salut,
Sinner



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