Proposal: changing development cycle

[Mark Bidewell]

I like this idea, it would also allow the introduction of things like newer
versions of Libreoffice, KDE, GNOME faster than potentially breaking
changes.


On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Paolo Leoni <ulixes84 at yahoo.it> wrote:

> You can find the same proposal scheme using this link (in order to avoid
> mail formatting issues):
> http://www.paololeoni.eu/fedora_proposal.jpg
>
> bye,
> Paolo
>
>
> 2012/11/5 Paolo Leoni <ulixes84 at yahoo.it>
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm a Fedora user and, occasionally, contributor.
>> I'm writing to you only to expose a simple proposal on Fedora future.
>>
>> We are debating on how Fedora Development cycle could be improved, and,
>> at the same time, how to maintain its "bleeding edge" way.
>>
>> So, this is my proposal:
>>
>> We could introduce a periodically different Fedora development cycle,
>> with major and minor release numbers.
>> When we want release a new major version, we have a development cycle
>> pretty longer, e.g. one year.
>> For the minor release we have the old development cycle: 6 months.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> The time to begin development of a major released could be discussed and
>> decided by FESCo.
>>
>>
>> This is a simple graphical concept of the proposal:
>>
>>
>> |~~~~~~~~| = 6 months of distribution development
>>
>> |----------------| = 6 months of distribution stable life
>>
>>
>> Fedora 17.8
>>
>> |~~~~~~~~|------------------|------------------|
>>
>> Fedora 17.9
>>
>>
>> |~~~~~~~~~|------------------|------------------|------------------|
>>
>> Fedora 18.0 (e.g.: introducing new anaconda...)
>>
>>
>> |~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~|------------------|------------------|
>>
>> Fedora 18.1
>>
>>
>> |~~~~~~~~~|------------------|------------------|
>>
>> Fedora 18.2
>>
>>
>>         |~~~~~~~~~|------------------|------------------|
>>
>> ..........
>>
>>
>> How do you think?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Paolo Leoni ~ www.paololeoni.eu
>>
>>
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