brainstorming for UDS-N - Ubuntu the Project

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 01, 2010, at 02:17 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:

>Fedora typically releases after Ubuntu, and seems to have a shorter
>freeze period than us.  Thus, projects which set their release cadence
>to match Fedora's more than Ubuntu's will thus release late into our
>freeze, leaving Ubuntu with a difficult choice of breaking freeze and
>risking a late addition (and the potential of Ubuntu-specific
>regressions we have to fight late into the release), or leaving it out
>and being seen by the public as "behind the curve" technically.
>
>Add to this the pressure from our collegues and internal/external
>customers who are depending on functionality, hardware-enablement, or
>other changes which upstream has put into the new release.  This leaves
>us with a tough choice between breaking freeze and risking late bugs,
>engaging in messy and time-consuming patch backporting, or
>disappointing the collegue/customer.

Is Fedora's release cycle consistently behind ours?  What I mean is, if
they're always one month behind us then a one-time sync (with a commitment to
align in the future) would greatly benefit both projects.  Mark has talked
before about trying to build a resonance in the open source world around
regular 6 month cycles, and I'd think if we could align Ubuntu and Fedora, it
would go a long way toward encouraging upstreams to join in the fun.

-Barry
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