On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 04:12:52AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > Dan Kegel wrote: > > I just wrote up an idea related to release management for post-1.0 > > wine releases. It's online at > > http://wiki.winehq.org/TimeBasedReleases > > Essentially, the idea is to release in March and September, > > in time for the April and October releases of Ubuntu. > > You have my 120% support for this. Although Ubuntu is certainly our > biggest distribution, I'd like to stress that by targeting March and > September, we're not just doing this for Ubuntu; we're doing it for > every distro that is timed to release shortly after the bi-annual Gnome > and X releases.
There aren't any except Ubuntu that do this I guess. At least SUSE releases in an 8 month cycle currently. > There is growing support for synchronizing distro release dates, not > only for the above reason, but also to make Linux as a whole look good. No, this is mostly Ubuntu wishful thinking as far as I see. > The alternative, truthfully, is choosing between shipping Ubuntu with a > 2+months out of date Wine version or an untested one. Either option sucks. I would really like to see what Alexandre thinks and how the post-1.0 things work out. Or if we have to put a release dude in, just like Dan now. ;) Ciao, Marcus