On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 10:20, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> Why not merge the cycles? Once per year (or whatever is decided) the media 
> release (like current releases) coincides with the release of the 
> stable/release tree. The other media releases will be similar, but the tree 
> will not be maintained or provided as release.

There's no problem with that at all... or changing the release cycle for
release media to only 2 per year, while releasing the stable tree
simultaneously...

The whole point is that we should be working together on it, not working
apart from each other.  We already *have* a Release Engineering Top
Level Project, there's no need to duplicate their efforts.

> ps. The difference for the installation medium between a release current style 
> and a stable release could just be the profile provided. (The profile taking 
> care of the different tree etc.)

With the SYNC variable idea, there's no need for separate media at all. 
All release media is "stable" media, with a simple instruction in the
Handbook for how to change to the "current" tree.

> pps. Of course it could also be done in the manual

*grin*

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer
Gentoo Linux

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