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

[andré]

Michael Scherer a écrit :
> Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 20:17 +0200, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
>    
>> On 5 October 2010 19:53, Tux 99<tux99-mga at uridium.org>  wrote:
>>      
>>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> I looked at the description that Michael gave. And I think I know what
>>>> a rolling distro is having Cooker and all :). light/heavy makes no
>>>> sense here.
>>>>          
>>> I give up, i'm not sure if it's a communication problem or if you are
>>> simply pretending not to understand to wind us up.
>>>
>>>        
>> Well, according to you I don't understand what you're saying, and also
>> Michael doesn't understand what you're saying, but maybe it's
>> coincidence?
>>      
> Well, let's try to be constructive.
>
> For all people interested into having a rolling release or a core based
> distribution, I propose that they write a document explaining :
>
> - the release process ( ie, what you put on iso )
>   - based on what criteria
>     - time based ?
>     - regular snapshot ?
>     - features based ?
> - how to decide what packages are upgraded day to day
>    - what criteria for what kind of upgrade ( version upgrade, patch
> upgrade )
>    - what procedure for upgrade ( test stage, direct upgrade ? )
>    - for how long
>    - how are updates built ( ie, against what tree )
> - what packages are not upgraded , unless there is a release, if there
> is one
>    - what criteria warrant the stability of this component
>    - how do we decide it will be upgraded
>
> Once people are able to produce this document, we will all be able to be
> on the same wavelength.
>    
Good idea :)