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 <[email protected]> > 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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