Am Montag, den 30.01.2006, 10:14 -0800 schrieb Jesse Keating: > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 10:25 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > > 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 > > I'm confused. Wasn't our original and still official release schedule > every 6-9 months? Now I'm confused. Wasn't the original and still official release schedule "Fedora Core is released two or tree times a year"? (that would be 4-6 months) Seems it still is: http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html Release Interval Fedora: 4-6 months http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html 10. Produce robust releases approximately 2-3 times per year [...] > Hasn't every release thus far fallen in that time > frame? Up to FC3 is was round about in the time frame: FC1: 5 November 2003 195 days till FC2: 18 May 2004 174 days till FC3: 8 November 2004 217 days till FC4: 13 June 2005 275 days till FC5: planed for 15 March 2006 6 Months: ~182 days > Won't FC5 fall in that time frame (albeit on the far side)? No. > Where is the confusion coming from? Because nobody ever officially wrote down that the nine months time frame of FC5 was a exception. And because we have no long term plan for FC6 and FC7. I know that Suse and Ubuntu always release around March (+/-1 some weeks) and September (+/- some weeks). Fedora is unpredictable. Say you are a journalist and want to tests distributions. You'll do it in April and November, when Ubuntu and Suse are new -- that fedora then maybe is already some months old and has an older Gnome is not your fault. BTW, I know some people that switched to Ubuntu or openSuse because they had Gnome 2.12 (FC4 has 2.10). Ridiculous IMHO, but some people are like this. ;-) BTW, I have no problem when a release slips 2 or 4 weeks due to some issues. But later releases shouldn't be effected due to this. So a "Fedora releases normally at the end of March and End of September" would be a really good idea IMHO. -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
