[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op dinsdag 14 juni 2011 18:08:17 schreef Patricia Fraser:
> Hi,
> 
> 2c from the marcomm team...
> 
> > Proposal 1:
> > 6 months release cycle -> 12 months life cycle
> > ( Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva < 2010.1 && Mandriva != 2006.0 )
> > 
> > Proposal 2:
> > 9 months release cycle -> 18 months life cycle
> > ( ~ opensuse and the one we used for Mageia 1 )
> > 
> > Proposal 3:
> > 12 months release cycle -> 24 months life cycle
> > ( Mandriva > 2010.1 )
> 
> The only reason for marcomm to take a position is that a release is a
> nice hook on which to hang another round of publicity.
> 
> I think 9 months is good; it gives us a good amount of time to plan
> whatever marketing/comms work is needed for release time, but it's
> not too long so we fall out of the public consciousness altogether.
> 
> And there are other things about us to publicise besides releases, so
> we can fill in the gaps nicely!
> 
> Cheers,

ah yes, i didn't think about this at all... this alone is enough reason to do 
a proper release cycle (instead of the rolling releases which seemed to have 
found a way in this thread)

a +3 is in order here.