It's Not Time for OSS Release Cycle Synchronization

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @02:12AM from the something-to-think-about dept.

Bakkies Botha writes "Ars Technica weighs in with some detailed analysis on the controversial issue of open source release cycle synchronization. Ars explains how time-based release cycles work and takes a close look at how the release management strategy suggested by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth would impact open source software projects. Ars concludes that Shuttleworth's proposal isn't currently viable and argues that the BFDL is overstating the potential to simplify development with better version control tools. Ars also examines a counter-proposal offered by KDE developer Aaron Seigo and explains how it enables users to get the same benefits of synchronization without disrupting upstream development."

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2008 by hansamurai · 2008-05-21 02:50 · Score: 4, Funny

And here I thought that 2008 was the year of Linux release cycle synchronization on the desktop.

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Re:Imho by Knuckles · 2008-05-21 05:50 · Score: 3, Funny

Vista has the remarkable property of being released years too late and still too soon at the same time.

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