Marc Haber: > Debian has already been forked by people who found Debian's release > cycles too long. The result is called Ubuntu, and we lost many of the > users (and developers!) who want shorter release cycles to them. > > Now, we aim for shorter release cycles ourselves, which won't bring > any of the users back we lost to Ubuntu. But it'll make us now lose > the users that think we release too often to the Enterprise Linuxes. Hi, We have generally released every 2nd year for the past 3-4 releases, if not more. The release cycle will /probably/ also be around two years. What a lot of people have desired is a shorter *freeze* - as in spending less time frozen and more time developing. Given the latter half of our freeze tends to involve mostly frustration, fragmentation of developers and very few bug fixes, I am personally one of the people, who would like to see Debian have shorter freezes[1]. Thanks, ~Niels [1] Notably by having fewer bugs that need to be fixed /when/ we freeze.
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