Well, I don't think we will ever come to an agreement especially as it seems that former mdv devs here seem to be very reluctant to change anything about the release cycle.
Personally as a future Mageia packager I will try to concentrate on making backports (apart from maintaining some specific packages) so in a way I will be helping to make Mageia in practice a sort of 'light' rolling distro as suggested by a few people in this thread. But I just want to say that based on my experience spending time since many years on several Linux forums (not specifically Mandriva ones), I can say for sure that the majority of 'normal' (non-geeks) users FEAR AND EVEN HATE distro upgrades, they just want to be able to install new versions of apps, not risky complete distro upgrades. So a one year release cycle with lots of app backports (and maybe a kernel backport mid-cycle if there is important new hardware support) is IMHO the best release cycle for 'normal' users.
