On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:54:27 -0500 Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:38:19 -0600 Bruno Wolff III wrote:
I'd rather we spent more effort on how figuring out how we can efficiently develop changes that will take longer than one release to get done.
How about no schedule? When something worth releasing is done, declare it is time for a new release. Could be 6 months, could be 2 years.
In general, this is almost (but not exactly) equivalent to a rolling release model (with a snapshot once in a while). I am all for it, however, note that troubles with the installer were picked up only (and could not be otherwise, since this only happens when installing) when the distribution was released.
I would suggest the beta be announced along with more emphasis on catastrophic new changes: the change to anaconda and the installer was announced for sure, but it would have been really worthwhile to have stressed that the old way of maintaining partitions while installing was not going to work or perhaps considered in development (this would have resulted in more people testing the specific aspect of the install).
I however, personally strongly favor the rolling release model, with periodic snapshots.
Ranjan