[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

[Angelo Naselli]

In data domenica 12 giugno 2011 22:46:33, Michael Scherer ha scritto:
> 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 )

Well imo extending too much release cycle means also to
have a lot of backports and patches for fixings.

So 1 or 2 are better, more upstream packages than fixings.

If we cannot afford 6 mo release cycle because we're all volunteers for 
instance, 9 mo one is the right compromise, i believe.

Cheers, 
-- 
	Angelo
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