On Saturday 04 February 2006 04:19am, Igor Jagec wrote:
Jesse Keating wrote:
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Enough with the birthdays already. :)
How about if we slip FC5 just a little more so that it is released in May on FC4's 1st anniversary? That would give us enough time to make a test4 and maybe even a test5 release to iron out all the new X bugs.
hehe, just kidding.
during that time to make sure FC5 is a great release for YOUR birthday (;
It's gonna be a great release. It's been a long time since FC4 was released... I suppose that RHEL5 will be based on FC5 since it took as much time to build it. Maybe it is a good idea to make release cycle to one year instead of 4 to 6 months as it is said it's going to be for Fedora Core.
After 2-1/2 years, I think Fedora development has all but proved that 6 months is the minimum time between good distribution releases. It doesn't look like we're ever going to see 4 months.
I'm not saying that 4 months isn't possible, just that the track record seems to show that 6 months is the "right" timeframe.
I'm not saying that 4 months is a bad goal. On the contrary, I think setting tough goals is (usually) a good thing; it spurs us all on to accomplish things we never have before.