Hello Thomas T. Veldhouse, > > a) gentoo is not about releases. > > > I understand that. BUT ... it was announced long ago that there was a > quarterly release plan starting in 2005. It was followed for only one > year?
That's right. It was quickly discovered that forcing a quarterly release schedule on releng was impractical, so they switched to bi-annual releases from 2006. 2007.0 was originally scheduled for release in February, but the profile has only just hit the portage tree. The actual release should not be too far off now. Aside from the new hardware situation, there is another reason for release, especially on schedule ones, publicity. Magazines like to include new releases on their cover discs and want to carry reviews of new releases (not betas). I was asked to review 2007.0 three months ago, based on the original release schedule, I'm still waiting to do so. That is lost positive publicity for Gentoo, at a time when it is getting plenty of publicity and precious little of it positive. -- Neil Bothwick Don't put all your hypes in one home page.
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