[Live-demo] Proposal for future revisions

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Mon Jul 5 23:52:13 EDT 2010


Alex, this sounds like a reasonable proposal. Lets revisit the question 
when we start building the next release.

Alex Mandel wrote:
> Something just occurred to me and I'd like to kick around the idea for
> the next release after v4.
>
> What if we only change the xubuntu version once a year? We'd still build
> twice a year, but the intermediate release would just be updates to
> versions of applications that have readily available updates.
>
> This would line up with our switching the local dataset to the foss4g
> location each year. Conceivably this could save us a lot of time trying
> to tackle the changes in ubuntu releases and hoping that various
> packagers are up to date.
>
> Theoretical release schedule:
> v4 -using xubuntu 10.04 - 9/2010
> v4.1 using xubuntu 10.04 - 3/2010
> v5 using xubuntu 11.04 - 9/2011
> etc...
>
> If everyone chips in 2c we might have enough to buy a slice of
> proverbial pie...
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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