On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:55:16PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009 18:10:07 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > You shouldn't mind about that. A new profile is not what a new release > > is for other distros, but just a symlink to a profile. > > > > As long as there is no need for a new one, 2009.0 will not be released. > > > Perhaps engineering should name the profile updates sequentially then. Start > with "1" and increment every time something happens that warrants a new > profile. As it is, the date-based numbering scheme leads people to believe > there is some kind of mythical "regular release'. > It looks like devs care a lot about PR and the buzz every release (is it a profile or a livecd) creates in the blogosphere...
Here is an intersting article by a gentoo dev (darkside): http://blog.jolexa.net/2009/02/25/gentoo-yearly-releases-help-or-hurt-gentoo/ --- TopperH http://topperh.blogspot.com
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