[Mageia-discuss] Wish List

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le samedi 02 octobre 2010 22:42:27, Graham Lauder a écrit :
> 
> On Sunday 03 Oct 2010 10:36:59 Sander Lepik wrote: 
> > I remember that Mandriva once had 1 year release. But in the Linux world
> > things move too fast to wait whole year before new release. And more than
> > 2 is too much pain for everyone.
> > 
> > --
> > Sander
> 
> I'm a fan of OpenSUSE's release cycle every eight months.
> 
> 3 releases every two years seems a good compromise
> 

The eight months release cycle looks interesting to me :
- it gives 2 months more than the 6-months-cycle
- only 3 releases in 2 years, so 1 release less than with the 6-months-cycle. That's either
 * less releases to support at a given time
 * longer supported releases (If we could flag one release as a Long Term Support release every 2 years, that would be really great and Mageia could really be seen as a reliable distribution).

As someone whose main contribution is backporting software to the stable releases of the distribution, this compromise between the 6-months and 1-year cycles looks promising.

What would be the drawbacks ? What can the openSuse experience teach us ?

Samuel Verschelde