Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > I understand you've been talking to other distributions as well about > syncing releases (or freezes) in order to ship same versions of major > system components. Now, much of the discussion here is about the actual > dates, i.e. the possible freeze in a few month as well as freezing in > the end of odd years to release in spring of even years. This idea seems > to fit best to your (ubuntu's) current release cycle and I feel many > Debian contributors see there your (inacceptable?) influence on Debian. > > I'm interested in the reactions of other distributions. Are they likely > to change their release cycle to fit yours? Or would you be willing to > change Ubuntu's release dates if SuSE proposed LTS releases to come out > in odd years or similar? >
I think most are waiting to see if Debian and Ubuntu can do this. If we can, I am very confident we will get a group of other distributions participating in the version harmonisation discussions in the first round. To win Novell we would have to actually demonstrate the process works, I think. And to win Red Hat we would need to demonstrate it works with everyone else first. At least, that's my impression from conversations to date. Mark
