Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

[Kevin Kofler]

Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> said:
>> The average is 3 months which is just as unreasonable.
> 
> Why?  What do you consider a reasonable interval?

The time it actually takes to test the update. I.e. at most 3 weeks.

>> > For example (just an example - please don't take this as picking on
>> > KDE!), KDE 4.4.0 was released on February 9, and F13 is scheduled for
>> > May 11.  That's a 3 month gap, not 6 months.  In my opinion, I don't
>> > think it is entirely unreasonable to wait 3 months for a major new
>> > release.
>> 
>> I disagree. Sorry.
> 
> Can you at least give some reasons?

Once 4.n+1.0 is out, 4.n.x is no longer updated, there are no further bugfix 
releases, any bugs in it will stay unfixed. And there are also nice new 
features in the new version.

        Kevin Kofler