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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2007-06-08
synchronizing all those teams for marketing reasons?
I think it will slow down development. A lot of energy will go to synchronizing all the different releases. There are some typical organization that do this kind of big bang synchronizations: MS, Apple (osx delay?), ...
If open source development is taking this route, they are competing more and more on the terms of the commercial organizations. The chaos inherent in the heterogeneous and smaller organizations will need to be "ordered". In nature the more ordered the more energy it costs. I think that is just the same here.
bye
roel
Edited 2008-06-30 16:10 UTC