Releasing every six months. Unity: Nothing can go wrong!

[Paul Sladen]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, chris wrote:
> I personally consider the drive to have a "release" every 6 months",

The story line in Ubuntu is actually a *two-year cycle* between the
Long Term Support (LTS) releases.  In the intermediate releases are
prep-work on the way to meeting each of those LTS encapsulations.

In between those is the six-month release cycle aligned from GNOME.
For developers three months of development and three months of
debugging is about right---much longer and people get itchy fingers
because they're bored of debugging and want to write something new.

For users, the six-month development cycle is arguably where Ubuntu
got its following from.  It provided a balance between Debian sid and
Debian stable; going with Ubuntu meant getting fresh stuff configured
with sane defaults without being on the absolute bleeding edge.

	-Paul