Monthly snapshots Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Thu Feb 28 17:00:00 UTC 2013


On Thursday, February 28, 2013 07:31:49 AM Rick Spencer wrote:
> More clearly, I think we should:
>  * Stop making interim releases.
>  * Keep doing daily quality and keep improving our daily quality.
>  * Take a monthly snapshot of the development release, which we support
> only until the next snapshot
> 
> That means users could choose:
>  * The LTS release
>  * The rolling release updated daily or as frequently as desired
>  * The rolling release updated at least monthly

Has there been any technical discussion about how this would work?  If so, can 
we have a pointer to it?

Is the snapshot a separate archive with a different sources.list entry and 
moving to the next snapshot is like a mini release-upgrade?

Scott K



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