Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th May 2008 18:40 UTC
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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Mark is basically trying to get projects to synchronise with Ubuntu's six month release cycle - for Ubuntu's downstream benefit.
If Mark wants some kind of coordinated release mechanism then he's going to have to put something into it. Aaron suggested one way he might be able to do that, as it is not up to upstream projects to compromise their feature list to stick to Ubuntu's six month release cycle.
It's Mark who's asking for this.