What next?

Thomas Vander Stichele thomas at apestaart.org
Thu Jun 2 00:55:59 UTC 2005


Hi,


> > Once upon a time, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> said:
> > > What about stretching out the dev cycle from 3months dev + 3 months of
> > > testing to something more like 6 months of dev + 3 months of testing.
> > 
> > How about deciding what the major goals of the next release should be
> > (within reason of course), estimating about how long it should take to
> > meet those goals, and then add in whatever else seems reasonable in the
> > given time frame?
> 
> Because the decision was explicitly made when the Fedora project started
> to do releases at regular intervals rather than based on feature-driven
> milestones. This is the model Gnome has used with a good bit of success.

I disagree with the request for stretching, and agree with the
comparison with GNOME's model.  Look at how Sarge went down.

In contrast, I'd like to propose another idea - keep FC (x-2) alive
until a month after FC (x) comes out.  This would make people feel they
don't need to upgrade every six months, but can do it every year, if
they feel it is a real issue.  I find it a little silly how currently FC
(x - 2) gets eol'd around the time FC (x) is starting to churn out test
releases.

Thomas


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