Simon Lukasik <isimluk(a)fedoraproject.org> writes:
Currently, each Fedora release is kept alive for 13(+/-) months.
There
were dozens of threads about shortening or prolonging period -- but I am
not sure if something like the following has been ever discussed:
Each N-th Fedora release -- where N%3==1 -- is alive for 7 months.
Each N-th Fedora release -- where N%3==2 -- is alive for 7 months.
Each N-th Fedora release -- where N%3==0 -- is alive for 19 months.
Additionally, maintainers might be encouraged to push their system
wide
changes into N%3==1. As well as they might be encouraged to make the
Fedora N%3==0 their best bread.
Wouldn't that just encourage 99% of average users to ignore the
short-lived releases? It would sure be a damn tempting approach for me.
(Personally, all I want out of Fedora is a stable platform to get my
work done on, and the less often I have to reinstall, the better.)
I think what you'd have using the short-lived releases is just the same
kind of brave souls who are willing to run rawhide or pre-release
branched systems. And there aren't that many of them, so you'd get
little QA, which would help to ensure those releases remain buggy, thus
creating a nasty feedback loop that further helps to drive away people
whose main interest is not in helping to debug the system. Eventually
the short-lived releases would just be rawhide-with-a-different-name.
regards, tom lane