Four! was Re: Two major releases per year instead of three

[Daniel Carrera]

On 08/04/2011 08:34 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:
> So I've actually been thinking of switching to 3 month cycles after 2.0.
> That would give us major releases on Nov 1, Feb 1, May 1, and Aug 1.
> This would also align better with the 6-month release cycles of Ubuntu
> and Fedora.

Not that my opinion matters, but I'm always happy when release cycles 
line up. I think the Free Software world should move in that direction.

FYI, the release cycle for Ubuntu is Apr 1 and Oct 1. With the above 
proposed release cycle, Ubuntu would ship with a 2-month-old version of 
Mercurial.

Fedora does not seem to have a rigid release cycle, but in practice they 
seem to fall in May and November. So, realistically, they would ship 
with a 3-month-old version of Mercurial.

I don't know if it matters, but if you changed the Mercurial release 
cycle to Mar 1, Jun 1, Sep 1, Dec 1 then Ubuntu would ship with a 1 
month Mercurial and Fedora with a 2 month-old Mercurial. That seems to 
line up best with Ubuntu and Fedora.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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