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
