Hello all, I begin by apologizing for my bad English...
Regarding the release cycle versions : 1) We must first thinking of the developpers, and human and financial opportunities will define these cycles. 2) Personally, I like the idea of a release every nine months, two for development and the third stable and maintained for X months or years. For the versions' name : - "Les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas" (in french in the text...) : those of development can have any name that is easy to manage, and the stable version should be salable. A good compromise can be, for example : => Mageia 2011 Mandrake, Mageia 2013 Sorceress, Mageia 2015 Houdini, ... (with the year and names or terms of magic). And for the choice of desktop's environment and applications : - The means (human and technical) will decide. Best would be to put everything, but I think choices will be needed (at least for marketing with a possibly distribution for "general public").
