Star Shuttleworth, Seigo Discuss Synchronised Release Cycles
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th May 2008 18:40 UTC
GNU, GPL, Open Source Back in April 2008, Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth pitched the idea of major open source projects synchronising their release cycles on a 6 month period. Projects like gcc, the Linux kernel, GNOME, KDE, as well as the distributions, would work out an acceptable release schedule. It would allow for easier collaboration between the various projects, and hardware vendors would be better able to support Linux since all major distributions would ship with the same kernel version.
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sbergman27
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2005-07-24

I think Shuttleworth is correct in believing that there should be more synchronization between the various projects and not just on a single distro level. He is wrong, however, to think that all the distros should just bend over because Ubuntu says so.

Please read the posts. If you agree that there should be more synchronization between the various projects you agree with what Mark has suggested. Because that is pretty much all he has proposed. If anything, it is Aaron who is suggesting that all the distros bend over backwards to help KDE do its releases.

Edited 2008-05-20 03:29 UTC

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