[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

[lebarhon]

Le 13/06/2011 17:37, Dale Huckeby a écrit :
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> The consensus so far seems to be:
>
> 6 months is too short
> 12 months is too long
> 9 months is juuuuust about right
>

You have to choose your public, 6 months is for geeks, 12 months is for 
everybody, these people who aren't IT technicians.
The installation of the new release is always something dangerous and 
worrying because there is always the codecs, the nets or some 
applications without rpm package. Moreover, the hardware evolution is 
slowing down and doesn't need so closed together releases.
I would prefer devs doing more different things less often that devs 
doing more often the same things, that isn't going ahead. Take care 
also, not developing things without any documentation, let this 
specialty to KDE.
I would like also that devs give more importance to the installation by 
update than to the new installation  (too much work to configure, desk, 
mail, ML, nets, backups, specific applications to be installed by hand 
like Geneanet or Rawtherapee...)
For all that, 12 months is already very short.

Lebarhon