New release cycle proposal (was Rolling release model philosophy (was ...))

[Matthieu Gautier]

Le 06/11/2012 20:19, Mark Bidewell a écrit :
> oddly this looks a lot like the Ubuntu release cycle if you replace
> stable with LTS

Ubuntu LTS in about 5 years lifetime. Other releases have a lifetime of
18mo.
For now, there is 5 maintained ubuntu versions at the same time (the
older is from 2008)

As far as I understand the fp, this is not what we want to (and can) do.

>
>     The cycle would have to go: stable, preview, preview, stable, and
>     so on to avoid maintaining more than two releases at a time.
>
>     If it went back and forth between stable and preview, you'd have
>     three supported releases at once in the second half of year two.
>

Yes, but I didn't find better ;)
This will make a stable release every 1.5 year. It will be complicated
to mix with a lifetime of 2 years.
And extend the lifetime to 3 years is not a good solution (and will be
refused anyway).

Matthieu.
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