Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.2 planning

[John Davis]

On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 23:14, Kumba wrote:
>
> Switching to a different release schedule in the middle of 2004 could
> cause confusion for users.  So here's my idea:
>
> For the remainder of 2004, release our quarterly releases, this means
> 2004.2 and 2004.3.  Take a big break during the summer for all the
> emerge enchancements (including --security) and consider making 2004.2
> in late july or early august, followed by 2004.3 in late october or
> early november.
>
> For 2005, One idea which still provides semi-frequent gentoo releases
> could be going from a quarterly release schedule to a tri-annual release
> schedule, i.e., one every four months.  That's still more than other
> distros, but it also strikes a nice balance by allowing an average of
> probably 3 months for hacking/enhanching, followed by probably a month
> or so of the fun process of stage/grp building/testing before release.
>
> So for 2005, you could do something like:
>
> Late Jan -- 2005.0
> Late May -- 2005.1
> Late Sep -- 2005.2
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> --Kumba

The idea for triannual releases definitely has some potential. After
2004, which you are right in saying that a change during this time would
be disruptive, we can surely do a review and see what works best. As
long as we have some type of continual release cycle so that our users
can be kept up to date, I will be happy.

The schedule that you proposed for the remainder of 2004 is what releng
actually the same as what we have planned presently ;) Check out the .2
info page -
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2004.2/2004.2.xml

Thanks for your input -

Cheers,
//zhen
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