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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I have no interest in the political advantages of a patch tuesday or a Distro April. Delaying or rushing a project too meet someone's political mandate just seem slike a poor idea.
What does interest me is technical merits. If such a community wide release schedual provides me with a higher quality base platform to start with plus the ongoing daily updates we enjoy now; I'm more interested.
All in all, I'm still undecided as I'm only effected by the end user benifits. The developers who have to work within the framework will need to discuss that side of it which seems to be what they are doing now.