On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My feeling is part of the solution is to move to a yearly release cycle. Unlike the early days of Fedora things just aren't changing as quick in terms of the base of the OS - hardware support in the kernel is generally excellent, and both Gnome and KDE (and likely the others) are mature environments that while they improve with each release there isn't generally anything that says a 6 month wait would be unbearable - and consideration should also be done to the track record that given the overall stability of those desktops that upgrades can likely be done safely mid-Fedora-release.
We need to rebase GNOME within about two months of the new upstream releases, or we'll lose our edge with the GNOME community. We'd be ceding our position as best GNOME distro to Ubuntu and Arch. So a one-year cycle means a major GNOME version update will need to land in the middle of a release to avoid that. And these do not have a good reputation for stability. Basically we'll wind up with a bunch of bugs landing halfway through the release, and without the usual Fedora QA process to ensure the most important of them get fixed before they reach users. So I can't support this plan....
Michael
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