[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Thorsten van Lil wrote:

> I don't want a full rolling release, because of the listed disadvantages. So, 
> if you ask me what is "wrong" with Arch, I would say:
> * due to the rolling release, it's nearly vanilla. This doesn't match 
> requirements of Mageia
> * no innovations (because of vanilla)
> * a rolling core system has a negative correlation with it's stability
> * heavy work load
> * ...
>
> So, I don't ask for a copy of Arch nor any other distribution. I asked 
> (although it wasn't my idea) for something new. An compromise: a light 
> rolling release.

This is exactly what release + updates + backports can be, the only 
requirement is enough people to do the work. I do not understand what 
people are saying about backports being "unsupported". IMHO we should 
either have backports that are supported, with fixes for security issues 
and important bugs, or no backports.


     Christiaan