Re: 5.4 Alpha?

2010/8/10 Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org>: > > 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). We have to provide a well defined life cycle for our releases. The way we do it now is not good, not for linux distros and not for developers. It is impossible to get a mid term visibility. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org