[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

[Patricia Fraser]

> Op dinsdag 14 juni 2011 18:08:17 schreef Patricia Fraser:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 2c from the marcomm team...
> > 
> > > 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 )
> > 
> > The only reason for marcomm to take a position is that a release
> > is a nice hook on which to hang another round of publicity.
> > 
> > I think 9 months is good; it gives us a good amount of time to
> > plan whatever marketing/comms work is needed for release time,
> > but it's not too long so we fall out of the public consciousness
> > altogether.
> > 
> > And there are other things about us to publicise besides
> > releases, so we can fill in the gaps nicely!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> ah yes, i didn't think about this at all... this alone is enough
> reason to do a proper release cycle (instead of the rolling
> releases which seemed to have found a way in this thread)
> 
> a +3 is in order here.

Something else: new users (coming to Mageia for the first time)
*need* a release - they have to have somewhere to start!

Cheers,

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