Re: 5.4 Alpha?
| From: | Lukas Kahwe Smith | Date: | Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:20:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: 5.4 Alpha? | ||
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On 10.08.2010, at 10:45, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 10:19 +0800, Adam Harvey wrote:
>
> Yes. Release early, release often is a good thing. What I'd also like is
> to have a Ubuntu-like support model. Where we have one LTS (long term
> supported) version (now for instance 5.3) which will get bug fixes for
> quite some time and an "early access" version (5.4) which will receive
> updates until the next "early access" (5.5) is there.
>
> Reasons:
>
> * Give people early access to features
> * Motivate developers as their additions are in a reachable future
> * Give users the chance to stay on the LTS version without having
> to do the full update on every release
> * Reduce the number of changes in "bugfix" releases
Is LTS really something we need to provide? Seems to me like this is something the linux vendors
take care of for the most part. Of course this leaves windows, OSX (and maybe some others).
regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org