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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KDE, in this case, should say, with plenty of warning, that they won't make the deadline and Fedora should then plan to make their next release without the latest KDE version.
Let's say that software projects chooses the 1st week of April and 1st week of October as their release dates and distors 3rd week of April and October (distros projects wouldn't need to release every 6 month of course and could skip a date if they felt the need) . Then all the distros would know by March and September what software they would be including. And they would also know that they will have at least two weeks for testing and integrating the final version of each project before release.