Am Montag, den 30.01.2006, 15:31 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >Am Montag, den 30.01.2006, 05:23 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > >>[...] > >>A few comments for more information. The switch to a prolonged > >>development cycle for Fedora Core 5 was specific to this release > >While we are at the topic already: This fact was badly communicated. > >There seems to be a whole lot of confusion about the current Fedora > >release cycle in the community -- for example the german > >wikipedia-writers have a long discussion about it and nowhere can find a > >*official* statement [*1] that the nine month cycle for FC5 was only a > >exception: > >http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Fedora_Core#6_Monate > > > > > There was no official statement that the release cycle was permanently > extended either. Exactly. > People just assumed that. Yeah -- but that our fault and not their. > Developers have been > communicating that this release cycle was only for FC5 for quite a while > now. Yeah, and it seems that was not enough. > >It IMHO would be good if we would have a defined long term release cycle > >just as Gnome has. And IMHO it should be in sync with gnome somehow > >(just as Ubuntu has, too)[*2]. E.g. The plan for Fedora Core could be: > >Always release two weeks after a major gnome release (this would be end > >of March and end of September). Yeah, sometimes it could slip a week or > >two if that is needed, but the plan for the version after that one > >should not slip due to this. > > > Fedora is not solely focussed on the desktop. Sure. But a defined long term release cycle has a lot of benefits -- look at Gnome. > Tying it up on the GNOME > release schedule only makes sense if you are a solely concentrating on > the desktop. No -- but if we sync up to the same schedule maybe gcc will sync to it, too. Or xorg, kde. Or maybe even the kernel (okay, that's unlikely). > Fedora Core is more of a general purpose operating system > now. Any proposed change for that needs the buy-in from many of the core > developers. That really isnt a discussion for marketing. Sure. But the reason why I replied to your initial mail in this thread was that there was a lack of a defined statement about the Fedora release cycle. And that's more a marketing problem afaics. CU thl -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
