Release management thoughts for Dapper Drake

Florian Zeitz florian-zeitz at lycos.de
Sat Oct 15 10:24:36 CDT 2005


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Jeff Waugh schrieb:
> <quote who="Ante Karamatic">
> 
>>What I wanted to say is that we could wait for 6 months after Dapper is
>>released and call Dapper enterprise ready in October, 2006.
> 
> 
>>We would still relase with 6 month cycle. We could have all the best
>>goodies in Dapper for desktop, and have time to test it for server.
> 
> 
> That would require changing dapper after it's "released", instead of getting
> it right the first time (which will involve new ways of looking at things,
> thus my proposal).
> 
> - Jeff
> 

This is what is done right now. With this concept you release for
Desktop with some minor bugs (which are OK for Desktop, but unaceptable
for enterprise users) and than include the normal bufixes making it
enterprise ready, within a certain time.

I personally like this idea, because it maintains the current "we're up
to date" concept of Ubuntu.
I might also be okay with your concept if the components I care about
are brought to date (because they belong to a goal, or an exception
depends on them), but that's not really the way I want to get what I want.

Other distributors have split their distribution, in Enterprise and
Dektop versions, because of the problem discussed here, this is probably
not an option for ubuntu, so basically I see 3 possibilities.
1. Be a Desktop only distribution (the current concept works well for this)
2. Be a Enterprise only distribution (Your concept will work for this)
3. Try to be both at the same time (Your concept might work for this,
but current user base might rebel and Ivans idea should work, but is not
really possible right now, because of the promises you made)

Just a users 2 cents.
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