Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jun 2008 11:34 UTC, submitted by matej
The open source world is currently debating the merits - if any - of synchronising the release schedules of several of the bigger, key projects that make up a Linux distribution. The discussion was started by Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth, and continued as a back and forth between the Ubuntu leader and KDE's Aaron Seigo, but of course other members of the community discussed right along on blogs and other venues. Sander, developer of Coccinella (an open-source Jabber client) provides some insights into the whole discussion.
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Lets face it, as far as most end users are concerned the only 'real' update to a distro is either the Kernal or DE being updated.
An upgrade must be something tangiable to the end user. Try to think of it as if it was a new version of windows or osx.
Firefox reaching v.3 != Fedora 10, for example
I would recommend release cyles based on DE
KDE 4.0 = new version
KDE 4.1 = new version
The drawback of this is of course that v10 kde may not be release the same time as v10 gnome. This would encourage distros to be DE specific. Is that good or bad? Thats a new thread :-p