What next?

[Daniel Veillard]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 03:08:40AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > Projects are getting larger and larger and need more time to develop.
> > Increasing the release cycle every year or two isn't the answer.
> 
> How would you know? Red hat has never had a release cycle of anything
> other than 6 months. You seem to be making an assertion you can't
> support. I'm suggesting we try something to see if it helps.

  Sure we do internally... RHEL so far has had an 18 months cycle
and it does work by branching at some point and doing the work we want
to do on the community base until it is ready to release. Like you we
need more time to integrate changes and stabilize than what the 6month
cycle allows, we also have the need to integrate most of it back into
the main cycle, and not disrupt it. It requires planning, branching,
merging, but it's doable and I think we can support that model from a
technical standpoint since we are over the fourth iteration on that model.

Daniel

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