On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 04:12:52AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
Dan Kegel wrote:
I just wrote up an idea related to release management for post-1.0 wine releases. It's online at http://wiki.winehq.org/TimeBasedReleases Essentially, the idea is to release in March and September, in time for the April and October releases of Ubuntu.
You have my 120% support for this. Although Ubuntu is certainly our biggest distribution, I'd like to stress that by targeting March and September, we're not just doing this for Ubuntu; we're doing it for every distro that is timed to release shortly after the bi-annual Gnome and X releases.
There aren't any except Ubuntu that do this I guess.
At least SUSE releases in an 8 month cycle currently.
There is growing support for synchronizing distro release dates, not only for the above reason, but also to make Linux as a whole look good.
No, this is mostly Ubuntu wishful thinking as far as I see.
The alternative, truthfully, is choosing between shipping Ubuntu with a 2+months out of date Wine version or an untested one. Either option sucks.
I would really like to see what Alexandre thinks and how the post-1.0 things work out.
Or if we have to put a release dude in, just like Dan now. ;)
Ciao, Marcus