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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Thom_Holwerda
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2005-06-29

Ubuntu's timetable is practically the same as Gnome's timetable, its not something they pulled our of their ass. So what he is suggesting is that All projects adhere to a set timetable and release cycle that a major OS project already uses and that many projects revolving around it use as well. Its a sound idea, but because it was suggested by the Ubuntu community its not valid.


This is not entirely true. MArk isn't suggesting that everyone adapts to Ubuntu's/GNOME's schedule. In fact, he clearly stated Ubuntu is willing to change its release cycle if needed.

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