On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 07:34, Gustavo Giampaoli <giampaoli.gust...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could it be possible to use the same schema that Mandriva use + one > "LTS" with three years of support? > > Regular releases every six months with 18 month support. > > But we could include this "kind of" LTS with 36 month. > > Difference with Ubuntu will be that our LTS will be launched only > after the previous LTS ends its cycle. > > Something like this: http://img819.imageshack.us/i/mageiareleases.jpg/ > > My doubt is will Magea community be able to handle the support for > four releases at the same time in semesters when it happen? > > If you add the LTS, should regular release support be reduced to 12 > months? This way, you'll never have more than 3 releases "alive" at > the same time. > > > > Gustavo Giampaoli (aka tavillo1980) > It has been posted before but I guess it's a good read for anyone willing to push an argument in this debate: http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/a-story-about-updates-and-people/
It is a nice post explaining the existing different point of views (bonus to clever points about updates frequency and presentation). Now, in the same vein, let's put the discussion at rest a little and have each interested person write down an article with arguments for the why's and how's. So here is a page for that: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=rollingdebate Please write down your point of view, detail it as explained on the wiki page, link it and a week from now, everyone involved in the discussion can have a look at it for a summary. That won't trigger a change decision at once (way too soon anyway, we have to roll a first release to assess our new build system and infrastructure and organisation) but it may at least lay down all arguments and allow to have a better view of what everyone understand, agree on definitions and see what is really at stake here. For later reference, discussion and decision. Thanks a lot. Cheers, Romain