Release management thoughts for Dapper Drake

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Ante Karamatic wrote:

>We should focus on making release appropriate for long term support. 5
>years is a long period. 5 years before today RedHat 7 was released with
>gcc-2.95, apache 1.3.12, 2.2.16 kernel being latest of packages. In 3
>years after Dapper gets released it will be obsolete (that would be RHEL
>2.1).
>  
>
No matter how hard we work at it, Dapper will look really old when
it's... really old. Our focus should not be on trying to squeeze the
latest stuff in pre-release, to make it less old in 5 years time, but
rather on doing it in a clean and elegant way, so that any fixes we have
to make in 5 years time are not having to be layered on top of cruft we
introduced in a rush at release time.