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 <[email protected]> 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 <[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 >> >> > > -- > devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell
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