Hi, On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 04:04:51PM +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote: > In my opinion, reducing the release schedule now would improve the throughput > of patches going in. Probably three months for the whole release would be > better with the majority of time being gates opened for merge window - two > months maybe?
As I said before, I'm pretty concerned about this. We have enough trouble supporting our stable releases as it is (though Peter's doing a fairly heroic job single-handedly holding up 1.8.x), and changing to three months just makes this worse. What's a vendor supposed to do when they hit a bug in code shipped six months ago? That would be two major releases old under a three-month release schedule, so I have a hard time believing any of us would care. The only reason the kernel can get away with it is because all of their downstreams have actual developers, not just packagers. That would be very nice indeed if that was the case for us, but we have downstreams like Ubuntu, so. Cheers, Daniel
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