Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jun 2008 11:34 UTC, submitted by matej
GNU, GPL, Open Source 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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alpha quality software
by ple_mono on Mon 30th Jun 2008 12:59 UTC
ple_mono
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2005-07-26

I don't particularly care for the publicity factor of synchronizing releases like that. What i'm after is the result of doing so, because as it is right now, most distros ship with way too much alpha quality software, just because they cant seem to hit the sweet spot that very often.