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Future release roadmap
Hello, We are planning resources to support our products running on Debian and would like to know an approximate timeline (through Q1 of 2017) of releases. We understand stable version 8.1 was released in June. What guidance should we use to plan support for stable 8.2. and stable 8.3? In general how frequently do these releases come out? Many thanks for any planning guidance you can provide. Steve Vogel Program Manager, Data Center Group Intel Corporation 780 Fifth Avenue, Suite 140 King of Prussia, PA 19406 steve.vo...@intel.commailto:steve.vo...@intel.com Office: 609-953-5342 Cell: 609-828-9360 [cid:image002.jpg@01D051BE.2FFB2A50]
Re: Future release roadmap
On 2015-08-21 15:51, Vogel, Steve wrote: We are planning resources to support our products running on Debian and would like to know an approximate timeline (through Q1 of 2017) of releases. We understand stable version 8.1 was released in June. What guidance should we use to plan support for stable 8.2. and stable 8.3? In general how frequently do these releases come out? Many thanks for any planning guidance you can provide. Assuming that you are referring to stable point releases, as you imply, the rule of thumb is that we schedule at two-month intervals for stable (three months for oldstable). However, that depends on the calendars of a number of people across the world, so it is a rule of thumb only. 8.2 has overrun considerably. Coordination happens primarily on debian-rele...@lists.debian.org if you want to watch out for it, and when known the release dates are posted to https://release.debian.org. Releases are normally on a Saturday and you can expect the results to be on mirrors by at least the Sunday morning. Further queries are probably best directed to debian-release; m-f-t set. For the release team: -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 directhex i have six years of solaris sysadmin experience, from 8-10. i am well qualified to say it is made from bonghits layered on top of bonghits
Re: Future release roadmap
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 02:51:46PM +, Vogel, Steve wrote: Hello, We are planning resources to support our products running on Debian and would like to know an approximate timeline (through Q1 of 2017) of releases. We understand stable version 8.1 was released in June. What guidance should we use to plan support for stable 8.2. and stable 8.3? In general how frequently do these releases come out? Many thanks for any planning guidance you can provide. Steve Vogel Program Manager, Data Center Group Intel Corporation 780 Fifth Avenue, Suite 140 King of Prussia, PA 19406 steve.vo...@intel.commailto:steve.vo...@intel.com Office: 609-953-5342 Cell: 609-828-9360 [cid:image002.jpg@01D051BE.2FFB2A50] Speaking purely personally - as an individual Debian developer - but explicitly NOT on behalf of the release team or the wider project as a whole. On average, lately a Debian major release - where major is 7, 8 - comes out about once every two years and there's normally at least one year of support beyond that. In that period, there are wrap up releases which include security fixes etc. about once a quarter. The major version is still 8, for example, and the point releases merely wrap up the fixes that you would normally get by updating regularly plus a few fixes if e.g. it becomes necessary to remove a package from the distribution altogether. By way of example: the prior stable distribution of Debian - Debian 7 codename Wheezy - is about to get a point release, though it is no longer the primary stable release. In three years, you might expect to see 8-10 individual point releases. At the same time, 8 - Jessie - will receive an update to 8.2 or so the plans are being arranged at the moment. For Q1 17 - We'll hopefully have Debian 9 - Stretch - so 8 will be oldstable. 7 will be oldoldstable. There are also attempts to prolong support for older Debian versions using the LTS name. Such significantly extended lifespans may come at a cost in that it may not be possible to maintain as wide a spread of packages as when that version was first released - Debian is volunteer maintained and there's only so much effort to go around. As others have said, talk to the release team. For future reference: the second of the first couple of Alpha releases of the installer for Debian 9 has been produced within the last couple of weeks - as such, we're probably 18-24 months away from release of Debian 9 Stretch as a finished article, based on prior experience - though that's a time frame that may change significantly. All the best AndyC [amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk / amaca...@debian.org]
Re: Future release roadmap
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Vogel, Steve steve.vo...@intel.com wrote: Hello, We are planning resources to support our products running on Debian and would like to know an approximate timeline (through Q1 of 2017) of releases. We understand stable version 8.1 was released in June. What guidance should we use to plan support for stable 8.2. and stable 8.3? In general how frequently do these releases come out? The release team has full control over what gets included into stable point releases, and when the releases come out; you may want to contact them directly via debian-release@l.d.o. According to their list archives, there are plans for 8.2 to be released in September [1]. Regards, Vincent [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2015/08/msg00600.html
Re: Future release roadmap
Am Freitag, den 21.08.2015, 14:51 + schrieb Vogel, Steve: We are planning resources to support our products running on Debian and would like to know an approximate timeline (through Q1 of 2017) of releases. We understand stable version 8.1 was released in June. What guidance should we use to plan support for stable 8.2. and stable 8.3? In general how frequently do these releases come out? Today at DebConf15 Niels hold a talk from the release team including a first schedule for stretch (freeze in one year): https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/meeting/167/onwards-to-stretch-and -other-items-from-the-release-team/ http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian -meetings/2015/debconf15/Onwards_to_Stretch_and_other_items_from_the_Re lease_Team.webm -- Noël Köthe noel debian.org Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
