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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2007-07-10
The problem isn't with synchronized releases, it's with synchronized non-releases - the dead spot in between major pushes of user-facing software puts less pressure on companies to keep the 'latest and greatest' going (like fedora 9's pressuring ubuntu on more than a few technical fronts.) Yes, the development is still going on behind the scenes, but it's harder to 'point to' what features users might find important for the next release, if no mainstream distro has it.