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

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 20:59 +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 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.

Both of them have freeze dates well in advance of their release dates.
It's actually more important that we have a harmonic frequency than
match their phase.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.