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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RE: release and stable branches
by stabbyjones on Mon 30th Jun 2008 22:52
in reply to "release and stable branches"
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Personally, I think Ubuntu should switch to a release branch and a stable branch of their dev tree. The release branch would stick hardcore to the main version of the big apps / kernels it was released with. The stable branch would allow for updates of items like xorg or KDE 4.0 -> 4.1 or firefox 2 -> 3, etc...
This way they can do their release cycles and still allow for larger items being upgraded.
Probably means more testing on their part and maybe it's a political thing since they want to force the major releases on people.
This way they can do their release cycles and still allow for larger items being upgraded.
Probably means more testing on their part and maybe it's a political thing since they want to force the major releases on people.
Maybe ubuntu should do 3 trees instead and call them Stable, Testing and Unstable?
Ubuntu is pretty much a second testing tree of debian as they go for the latest packages rather being a 2nd etch.
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Personally, I think Ubuntu should switch to a release branch and a stable branch of their dev tree. The release branch would stick hardcore to the main version of the big apps / kernels it was released with. The stable branch would allow for updates of items like xorg or KDE 4.0 -> 4.1 or firefox 2 -> 3, etc...
This way they can do their release cycles and still allow for larger items being upgraded.
Probably means more testing on their part and maybe it's a political thing since they want to force the major releases on people.