# from jerry gay
# on Tuesday 05 August 2008 14:13:
>>On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote:
>> Which reminds me: chromatic, what was your reasoning for major
>> releases being every three months, instead of four or six?
>>
>> I agree we don't want to go much beyond six months for our major
>> releases, but with at least two major distros that aim for decent
>> freshness (Ubuntu and Fedora) using six month release cycles, I'm
>> curious what we gain with a shorter cycle than that.
>please start a new thread as this has moved off-topic.
Indeed.
There's quite a bit of ground left to be covered before anyone needs to
worry about how much the support contracts are going to cost.
I imagine that release cycles and deprecation of parrot features isn't
going to mean nearly as much churn to RHEL or Ubuntu LTS, or
Debian "stable" users as it would with e.g. Perl 5 -- because they will
typically be interfacing with the HLL, which provides a bit of buffer.
--Eric
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