[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

[Sander Lepik]

12.06.2011 23:46, Michael Scherer kirjutas:
> 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 )
 From those options i would go with the second one. Third is way too much wanted from users 
(and first has too short life cycle). They are always eager for new stuff and waiting one 
year ain't option for them. We could also try to have some LTS versions. But in a bit 
different manner than Ubuntu. Like if we notice that some release is good and stable we 
could extend its support period (ie mdv2008.1 was really stabel and also mdv2010.1 was 
pretty good - for me neither had too many problems and i would have keeped 2008.1 for longer 
but its support ended).

One more thing i didn't like with Mageia 1. Official launch date that you know is coming and 
you see that not all things are ready for prime time but you go anyway as there is launch 
date announced. Ubuntu has failed with that at least few times.
Debian (Mozilla somewhat too) does better job here. They don't release if they see critical 
problems and they don't announce release too far away.
In that hurry we probably missed ATI graphics problem and could have solved it better.

Maybe we should try to have 9 months but if it will be 10 with more stable release i would 
go with 10 (or mabye final freeze in 8 months and then we'll see how fast we can make it 
stable).

(And we have to keep up the good job with upgrading smoothness - in the future it must be 
tested even more, that way users who want longer cycle will complain less if they can 
upgrade their system w/o big problems.)

--
my 0.02€ (or a bit more :P)
Sander