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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Release schedule
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-11-05 7:42:32
Message-ID: 200711050042.32880.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Sunday 04 November 2007, Stephan Binner wrote:
> On Saturday 27 October 2007 18:47:28 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > Either way, OpenSuse and Fedora have pretty close release schedules, so
> > this most likely would work for them as well.
>
> I doubt that, openSUSE is on an about 8 month release schedule while
> Kubuntu and Fedora are on a (strict) 6 month release interval.

not only that, but Fedora is currently a month after *buntu. add in any other 
options and it just gets rediculous. and heaven forbig anyone slips by a 
month or two (has happened in the past for all mentioned products). 

the idea of some sort of globally coordinated release is a pipedream that is 
being sold as a way to convince people to line up nicely with one company's 
product.

i was honestly very unimpressed when Kubuntu was mentioned by name in the dot 
story. i tried to get it removed but didn't make it in time. why? by sidling 
too obviously and too overtly with any one group we completely compromise our 
neutrality and start to endager our working relationships with other groups. 
this is not a theory, but something that has already come up.

for everyone thinking *buntu has Done It(tm), i might just remind you of the 
days when Red Hat was in the position in the community's mind. or how Gentoo 
flared and then flamed out. or the chaos that ensued when SUSE was bought by 
Novell and all the gnashing of teeth that went on.

playing goody-goody with one group too strongly is a recipe for bad things to 
happen.

we definitely need to take into consideration our downstreams, but that word 
is plural.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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