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Mandrake Linux Development Process Changes

Posted by simoniker on from the still-potent-mandragora dept.

joestar writes "Just found at MandrakeLinux.com: 'MandrakeSoft today announced a major evolution in the way that future Mandrake Linux distributions will be engineered and released. The purpose of this new development process is to provide the highest level of new features, as well as maximizing the quality of new products.' In short: for each release, there will be a 'Community' release, equivalent to a common Mandrake release, with all latest features. Several months later an 'Official' release - based on the 'Community' - will be available. Both of them will be released publicly and supported. The new process will start with the upcoming Mandrake 10.0."

3 of 232 comments (clear)

  1. Todo List.. by BeemanH2O · · Score: 0, Redundant

    TODO:

    1) Confuse customer with new alpha/beta/RC/final system
    2) ???
    3) Profit!

  2. Debian by tacocat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sounds like the same release process that Debian has had all along.

    Also sounds a lot like the RedHat - Fedora release process recently announced.

    Hmmm... It must work.

    I wonder what SuSE will do?

  3. Re:Is this going to help? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't care if I am anonymous, mod this up:

    Stable == Official (Yes!)
    (WRONG!!!):
    Unstable == Community
    Testing == Cooker
    It should read:
    Unstable = Cooker
    Testing = Community