-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Riddell wrote on 28/02/13 16:49: > > Along with no UDS this feels like a further move away from being a > community project for Ubuntu. > > After much time lobbying KDE (and other upstreams) to move to 6 > monthly releases that has been working nicely for some years but if > we lose that cadance we will be in danger of losing a lot of what > makes this work well. > > ...
A six-monthly cadence may have been good compared with what KDE was doing previously, I don't know. But that does not mean it is the best approach in general. The idea of synchronized cadences dates from the days when it was assumed that a "distribution" was a scalable way to provide all the software that millions of people would want to use -- from the kernel all the way up to the Kairo game. That turned out not to be true. And even if it had been true, the optimal release cycle for a game, a magazine app, a Web browser trying to push the standards envelope, a Twitter client trying to stay ahead of API changes, an office suite aiming for compatibility with a recent proprietary office suite, a utility for controlling a recently-released hardware device, and a base operating system, are all likely to be different. Why would anyone expect them to be the same? Especially on a mobile platform where many apps are intended for brief lifetimes, such as an exhibition, conference, festival, sporting event, or magazine issue. - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEwoPwACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecoupgCdHK2TZHnac/wtf6VpRiVqjwNK B0UAn14dprWJ9fDNNM7mgyDRSnTje0Cj =ih/s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
