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.