Ubuntu needs a new development model

[Ryan Oram]

This is intentional as I am a economics/computer science major,
currently writing my thesis on the economics behind the open source
development model. To be frank, I feel that the current Ubuntu
development model is unsound as it simply does not scale.

Ryan

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
> You mean "Publishing Model" not "Development Model"
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> There are people thinking about development models, economics,
> community, tools etc and this thread is not about any of it.
>
> Martin,
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> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 18:44 -0400, Ryan Oram wrote:
>> Ubuntu needs a change in direction. I propose that Ubuntu adopt a
>> development model where only the core operating system, userland, core
>> libraries, and desktop environment are frozen every 6 months. The
>> applications would then be freely updated to the newest versions at
>> all times. Package maintenance and support for the end-user
>> applications would be provided by the developers themselves.
>>
>> This new release system would be very similar to the semi-rolling
>> release system I implemented (and tested) in infinityOS.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan Oram
>>
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