On Feb 28, 2013, at 05:09 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: >FWIW, I'm all for this. The past two cycles have demonstrated a >tremendous increase in daily quality, and starting a RR now will only >motivate everyone to get even better.
I'm all for it too, as it pretty much mirrors how I actually use and develop on Ubuntu. Upgrading my Ubuntu servers is a big deal for me, so I use LTS releases there. I certainly don't want to have to think about them more often than every 2 years. On the desktop though, I love being on the bleeding edge, so a rolling release reminds me fondly of my Gentoo days (where you never said the word "upgrade" :) without the mind numbing wait for compilations. Over the past several cycles, as Rick points out, the QA has gotten so good that I have almost no qualms about working on a rolling release. Long gone are the days where a `apt-get upgrade` has broken my system (knock on wood) and while I do inspect dist-upgrades a little more carefully, they are usually pretty reliable too. In a weird way, 6 month cycles feels both too long and too short. >> * Take a monthly snapshot of the development release, which we support >> only until the next snapshot > >This is the main point where I have doubts and questions: > > * What does "support" mean for the monthly snapshots? Hopefully not > security updates, SRUs, and backports? That would ruin pretty much > all the savings that we do from dropping the interim releases. > > * What is the purpose of these snapshots, i. e. who would use them? > If all our published daily images are good enough to install, boot, > and get you into a desktop, and we wouldn't do significantly more > QA on the "monthly" ones anyway, what makes these images special? Same questions here. I'd happily roll along on the desktop for 2 years and call the normal development cycle "support". >You forgot the One True Reason for "Why Now?": I'm sure that it was >never meant to be a Raring Ringtail, but always a Rolling Release! We >couldn't do it at any other point in time. *Much* better than the Sloppy Swish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taran_Killam#Killam.27s_character_Mokiki >I'm looking forward to this. I'm sure there will be rough edges, but >let's try this. +1. -Barry -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
