New release cycle proposal (was Rolling release model philosophy (was ...))

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

One have to say the hard truth - only the latest fedora release is supported by many maintainers because that's what they/we use.

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthieu Gautier" <mgautier at fedoraproject.org>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 9:19:41 PM
> Subject: Re: New release cycle proposal (was Rolling release model philosophy	(was ...))
> 
> Le 06/11/2012 20:05, Peter Lemenkov a écrit :
> > 2012/11/6 Matthieu Gautier <mgautier at fedoraproject.org>:
> >>> So you not a maintainer but you still suggesting that we,
> >>> maintainers,
> >>> should do 2 times more job by supporting several simultaneous
> >>> Fedora
> >>> versions instead of 3 right now for more than two years. And
> >>> that's
> >>> all just because you think it's a good idea to spend my personal
> >>> time
> >>> on the rreleases I'm not using anymore.
> >> No, I never suggest that. Preview versions have a timelife of 6mo
> >> instead of 12.
> >> Stable version have a lifetime of 24mo (12mo for regular updates)
> >> instead of 12.
> > Exactly what I'm saying - two times more job. So who's gonna pay us
> > for the time wasted on supporting distributions we're not using
> > personally?
> >
> > I think you didn't get the maintainers motivation (except those RH
> > fellows whoi just did the job) - we're doing our part because we're
> > using Fedora daily. What you're suggesting isn't fun anymore. So
> > somebody should pay for that.
> 
> Hum.. It should be some misunderstanding somewhere :
> 
> For security updates:
> - First half of the year : 2 versions to maintain (+1 version in dev)
> =>
> As usual
> - Second half of the year : 3 versions to maintain (+1 version in
> dev)
> => Ok, more work, but definitively not 2 times more
> 
> For other updates:
> - First half of the year : 1 version to maintain (+1 in dev) => Less
> work
> - Second half of the year : 2 versions to maintain (+1 in dev) => As
> usual
> 
> *Regards*
> Matthieu Gautier
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