[rfc] six-month stable release cycles

[Martin Pool]

2009/8/6 Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at canonical.com>:
> Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
>
>>     jam> In my opinion we can also do something which brings in most of what you
>>     jam> want. Namely:
>>
>>     jam> 1) Plan to release a beta every 4weeks, without an RC period.
>>     jam> 2) If a given beta has obvious issues, plan to release the next beta in
>>     jam> 1 week, rather than 4 weeks. (Similar to how we would go from RC1 +
>>     jam> minor fixes => final.)
>>
>>     jam> This avoids always generating 2 releases, but gives the
>>     jam> same stability guarantees that we have today.
>>
>> Full agreement.
>
> Yes, that sounds good to me.

That's nice because we'd agreed on it earlier in the thread. :-)

It sounds like this is pretty much set.  I will try to update the
document soon so that we have an ongoing reference for just how it
works, and as a final check.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>