[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

[Oliver Burger]

Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> schrieb am 12.06.2011
> 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 )
That's kind of a hard decison. I don't know if a 6 month cycle would 
not put too much stress on the dev/packager community. But 12 months 
are a bit much for the hordes of impatient users usually residing in 
the forums.
So I would - for now - prefer option 2, 9 months seeming a reasonable 
time span.

Especially since we would always be able to change that cycle to 
something more fitting.

As to the "rolling" and the "lts" discussion. I think it's something 
for the future. We first have to see, how much manpower we really have, 
to maintain the distro.

I woul then kind of like the idea of a special rolling repo like 
debian testing or suse tumbleweed.

Oliver
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