Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th May 2008 18:40 UTC
Back in April 2008, Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth pitched the idea of major open source projects synchronising their release cycles on a 6 month period. Projects like gcc, the Linux kernel, GNOME, KDE, as well as the distributions, would work out an acceptable release schedule. It would allow for easier collaboration between the various projects, and hardware vendors would be better able to support Linux since all major distributions would ship with the same kernel version.
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RE[7]: red hat and novell don't wait
by Rahul on Tue 20th May 2008 14:29
in reply to "RE[6]: red hat and novell don't wait"
Member since:2005-07-06
Change the release cycle to match conflicting upstream release schedules and distribution release schedules doesn't really work. Enterprise releases are only put out every 2 years or so. I doubt he isn't willing to only release to match that. The GNOME release schedule originated from the Red Hat Linux release schedule
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/TimeBased
Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mandrive release schedules already match to a good extend in a organic way. Upstream projects already do accomodate these releases.
RE[7]: red hat and novell don't wait
by segedunum on Tue 20th May 2008 17:41
in reply to "RE[6]: red hat and novell don't wait"
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This is not entirely true. MArk isn't suggesting that everyone adapts to Ubuntu's/GNOME's schedule. In fact, he clearly stated Ubuntu is willing to change its release cycle if needed.