You can find the same proposal scheme using this link (in order to avoid mail formatting issues):<br><a href="http://www.paololeoni.eu/fedora_proposal.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.paololeoni.eu/fedora_proposal.jpg</a><br>
<br>bye,<br>Paolo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/11/5 Paolo Leoni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ulixes84@yahoo.it" target="_blank">ulixes84@yahoo.it</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>I'm a Fedora user and, occasionally, contributor.<br>I'm writing to you only to expose a simple proposal on Fedora future.<br>
<br>We are debating on how Fedora Development cycle could be improved, and, at the same time, how to maintain its "bleeding edge" way. <br>
<br>So, this is my proposal:<br><br>We could introduce a periodically different Fedora development cycle, with major and minor release numbers.<br>When we want release a new major version, we have a development cycle pretty longer, e.g. one year. <br>
For the minor release we have the old development cycle: 6 months.<br><br>The minor release that come before the major release could have a life cycle with a lenght of 18 months, to compensate the longer devel cycle of the next major release.<br>
<br>The time to begin development of a major released could be discussed and decided by FESCo.<br><br><br>This is a simple graphical concept of the proposal:<br> <br><br>|~~~~~~~~| = 6 months of distribution development<br>
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|----------------| = 6 months of distribution stable life<br>
<br><br>Fedora 17.8<br><br>|~~~~~~~~|------------------|------------------|<br><br>Fedora 17.9<br><br> |~~~~~~~~~|------------------|------------------|------------------|<br><br>Fedora 18.0 (e.g.: introducing new anaconda...)<br>
<br> |~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~|------------------|------------------|<br><br>Fedora 18.1<br><br> |~~~~~~~~~|------------------|------------------|<br>
<br>Fedora 18.2<br><br> |~~~~~~~~~|------------------|------------------|<br><br>..........<br><br><br>How do you think?<br><br>Regards,<br>
Paolo Leoni ~ <a href="http://www.paololeoni.eu" target="_blank">www.paololeoni.eu</a><br>
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