[Mageia-dev] Summary of the release cycle decision

[James Kerr]

On 07/07/11 06:07, Remco Rijnders wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 07:47:49PM -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:44:07 -0400, Michael scherer <misc at zarb.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Since we took one month for various things ( such as discussing
>>> everything ), we propose
>>> the next release to be on 4th april, and start the cycle today. This
>>> is in the middle
>>> of the week on purpose, to avoid the weekend.
>>
>> Wasn't there a request some time ago to consider releasing just before
>> the end of a month
>> so people with monthly limits could choose to use up their current
>> month's limit, or wait,
>> depending on how close they were to the limit?
>
> I don't recall seeing such a discussion... but I think we are now
> drifting too far off... I think the number of persons for which this is
> an issue is really limited and any date that we pick will be somewhat
> arbitrarily.
>

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984

I believe that monthly download quotas are quite common in some 
countries, although the "month" to which the quota applies is not always 
a calendar month. My quota, for example, is re-set on my billing date, 
which is not the first day of the month.

I have no idea how many people have quotas that renew on the first of 
the month.

Jim