> 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, -- Trish Fraser, JD9R RQ2D 52.4161N,16.9303E di jun 14 23:18:34 CEST 2011 GNU/Linux 1997-2010 #283226 counter.li.org andromeda up 5 hour(s), 40 min. kernel 2.6.38.7-desktop-1.mga --
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