[Mageia-dev] Release cycle - what is actually POSSIBLE?

[Ahmad Samir]

On 26 November 2010 12:21, Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
> Le 2010-11-26 03:14, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
>>
>> 2010/11/26 andre999<andr55 at laposte.net>:
>>>
>>> MIhail Papadopoulos a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why not going down the right path: A rolling release cycle would be
>>>> simply
>>>> great. After all, this isn't a commercial distribution, so it shouldn't
>>>> be
>>>> a total noob Ubuntu-style mishmash.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why ?
>>> What do you mean by "rolling" ?
>>> How would it improve things for the user ?
>>> How would it improve things for the developers/packages/translators who
>>> provide Mageia ?
>>> What are the costs ?
>>> What are the benefits ?
>>> And how does that compare with the alternatives ?
>>
>> This has already been discussed in length in one of the lists, very
>> early, IIRC ist was early October . There were even polls in
>> communities about.
>>
>
> Yes it was. I think it will re-surface again due to Ubuntu's recent
> advertising of going to a "rolling distro" scheme. We may have to go through
> another round of these comments.
>
> Do we have an archive list of the user mailist where we can refer people to
> continue on that particular thread? Are the mailists archived?
>
> Marc
> Marketing Team Member
>
>

You mean the "rumours" that Ubuntu will switch to a rolling distro
model? http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ubuntu-Rolling-release-rumours-wrong-1142040.html

(thanks to misc posting the link on IRC yesterday).

-- 
Ahmad Samir