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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Perhaps a select number of release dates could be chosen for everybody to shuffle about a little to meet. A compromise as it were.
Have January, April, July & October as standardised release months, and have everybody shuffle up or down a month or two so that everybody benefits from a larger number of releases occurring at the same time, rather than a month or two apart, and thus slipping past a DE release (*ahem*Firefox3*ahem*).
If both Ubuntu & Firefox had chosen a standardised July release instead of barely just apart, they could have shipped together.