On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:47:20 Markus wrote:
Am Donnerstag 18 Dezember 2008 20:50:55 schrieb Benji Weber:
If we're voting then I much prefer the longer ~10month+ release cycle length.
Madriva switched away from a 12 months cycle after a community survey because it was considered too long. IMHO the release cycle should not exceed 10 months.
There are IMO the following ways to release a distribution: * on a strict regular schedule. This could be 6 months like Ubuntu or the 12 months as proposed. I would not propose a strict schedule with another number of months since that would lead again to a non-regular schedule * on a non-regular schedule - this is what we're doing right now where we aim for 8 months but achieve 6-10 months depending on other factors Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126