Releases in 3 months

[Sune Vuorela]

On 2013-07-14, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> Here are some assumptions. Correct me if they are wrong:
>  - KDE developers support the last relesed and *maybe* the second to last 
> release with bugfixes.
>  - Distributions have a release cycle of 6 months or longer.
>  - Distributions pick their contents 2-3 months in advance, at least

I think these assumptions in general are correct, with some exceptions
(the rolling distros like arch and gentoo to one side, and distros like
debian in the other side).

> So therefore I am against the proposal. I think keeping 6 months is a good 
> figure to ensure both reasonable turn-around *and* actual bugfixes of versions 
> being used in the real world.

Thank you for a very well-written email.

/Sune