Simon Lukasik <isimluk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Currently, each Fedora release is kept alive for 13(+/-) months. There > were dozens of threads about shortening or prolonging period -- but I am > not sure if something like the following has been ever discussed: > Each N-th Fedora release -- where N%3==1 -- is alive for 7 months. > Each N-th Fedora release -- where N%3==2 -- is alive for 7 months. > Each N-th Fedora release -- where N%3==0 -- is alive for 19 months. > Additionally, maintainers might be encouraged to push their system wide > changes into N%3==1. As well as they might be encouraged to make the > Fedora N%3==0 their best bread. Wouldn't that just encourage 99% of average users to ignore the short-lived releases? It would sure be a damn tempting approach for me. (Personally, all I want out of Fedora is a stable platform to get my work done on, and the less often I have to reinstall, the better.) I think what you'd have using the short-lived releases is just the same kind of brave souls who are willing to run rawhide or pre-release branched systems. And there aren't that many of them, so you'd get little QA, which would help to ensure those releases remain buggy, thus creating a nasty feedback loop that further helps to drive away people whose main interest is not in helping to debug the system. Eventually the short-lived releases would just be rawhide-with-a-different-name. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
