On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 20:03 +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Actually many complained that 11.1 had a too short release cycle - so they did not really start testing because they hardly finished their 11.0 polishing and I guess that's right for many. And if you go with a may release with many developers having prolonged christmas holidays and ask for an extended RC phase to stabilize and translate, this gives very little time over a kernel and a gcc update. Does pretty hard to sell to users to me.
I agree with them. I tend to prefer longer release times, particularly from a testing (some people like to use their shiny new release before they go bug hunting in the next one ;-)), and from a marketing perspective (2 to 3 releases a year, every year gets tedious to manage, and overwhelms users).
I think the current openSUSE schedule (which has been described to me as "3 releases over a period of two years", is that about right?) is a good pace.