Like Magic Banana said the amount of funds are insufficient at this point to
make a difference in the timeliness of the releases. Until there are
sufficient funds for Rubén Rodríguez to work on it full time I don't think
it is unreasonable that the release time be significant in comparison to
other distributions.
I've been working on a distribution in the last couple days. Well- I've been
working on a distribution for 10 years. Mostly refining and implementing
concepts than actually releasing a finished product. And this is for a
particular audience- unlike Trisquel. The point is that I have a good idea
what it takes to make it happen.
What I would probably do in Rubén's situation is release a version based on
Ubuntu's long term support release. Then I would not bother releasing a new
version every six months. I would only release updates to critical
components. Packages like hplip (printers), firefox, kernels, etc.
All of this means time to get things stable, better polished, and working
consistently.
Even with the resources that Canonical has I'm not convinced that this is the
best approach for the long haul. Hitting the masses I think is more important
than satisfying the need of a few technical users who are just playing around
anyway.
I'm not saying every person who wants the STS releases is playing around. As
long as the LTS releases had better hardware support and updates for a few
critical packages though the STS releases would be fine for those doing real
work. You would see better hardware support, more stability, and more
polished releases. At least that is the idea. From the work I've done with
users, development, and hardware support I'm pretty confident in this view.
