Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 09:32:36PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > >> In other words: freeze on december the first doesn't mean that if, say, >> Gnome >> will publish it's new shiny 1.2 version by december the 15, the last beta >> should have to be included, but that the december version will ship version >> 1.1 (or whatever is the previous known to work stable). It's up to the >> upstreamer to decide if next time they will publish by november the 15th >> instead of december the 15th so their latest greatest gets to be shipped. >> > > So we basically force a time-based release schedule upon our upstreams > when we do time-based freezes? I am not sure whether upstreams are > going to like this. >
No, we give them the opportunity to recommend a version. It might be an older version, or a version they happen to be about to release, it's not *necessarily* time-based for them. We're going to pick a version of their stuff anyway, this just makes it easier to participate in one conversation with many distros about which would work best. I do think more upstreams will adopt time-based releases. Kernel, GNOME, KDE and others are already doing quite well there. X would like to, but is short of manpower on the RM front. Mark
