How about major and minor releases

[Maynard Kuona]

Something like Fedora makes a major release every 12 months, and then a
minor update release between major releases. The minor release, like a
release 2, would be just release 1 with all the security updates and
other necessary updates would be binary compatible with the previous,
like a target of 99.9% compatibility, and the major could have a much
lower target, like maybe 95%. In short, the releases cycle could be
something like
 
Fedora Core v2 Release 1.
 
            Six months later,
 
Fedora Core v2 Release 2
 
            Six months later,
 
Fedora Core v3 Release 1
 
This doesn't have to be set in stone, if there is a real need to jump
the minor release and bump up the version number it would be done. Then
there could be a beta of the next release from say 2 months after the
release 1 of the previous version, which lasts about 10 months and
culminates in the next release. This also serves as a test area for the
current release packages, since there should be some compatibility
between them. So fixes filter down to the current 'stable' from the Beta
anyway.
 
I think it would be nice to see the introduction of the stock kernel as
part of the distro. Since Fedora is unsupported anyway, this shouldn't
be too much of a problem. A contrib kernel section for kernels would be
nice. 
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