[24h] 6 months release schedule, 4.1 in July

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Donnerstag 17 Januar 2008 schrieb Cornelius Schumacher:
> On Thursday 17 January 2008 17:01, Sebastian Kuegler wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 January 2008 13:22:45 Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > > On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:14, Sebastian Kuegler wrote:
> > > > I therefore propose to adopt a 6 months release schedule, starting to
> > > > release in July with 4.1, then in January 2009 4.2, and so on.
> > >
> > > Given the fuzz which was made around this topic when Mark Shuttleworth
> > > asked us to do it, how do you intent to communicate it?
> >
> > I don't really see how Mark Shuttleworth has influence on that (other
> > than stating the obvious, that distros would like us to have time-based
> > releases).
>
> Mark doesn't really have influence on that, but if we announce a six-month
> release cycle, everybody who has followed the discussion around Mark's
> aKademy talk will say "Oh, now they are doing what Mark told them."
>
> Just wanting to say, that we should handle the communication with some
> care, if we do that.

Does it help the case if we go to a "sixplus" months release cycle? :)

Greetings, Stephan