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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Well I'm assuming the distros are closely following the daily snapshot/beta/RC progress of the packages in question so most of the problems should get taken care of continuously at those stages. The two weeks will be the time they'll have to test the final version of the software and to catch anything they missed or has changed since the final RC.