Two major releases per year instead of three

[Antoine Pitrou]

Daniel Carrera <dcarrera <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> If Mercurial is timed with Gnome releases that is just about right to go 
> into the following Ubuntu release. I think other distributions are 
> moving to a 6 month cycle.

Not true. Mageia has chosen a 9 months release cycle:
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/07/17/mageia-2-release-cycle-support-and-planning/

Besides, X11 and Gnome are integrated with the whole system stack, from kernel
to GUI apps. Mercurial is pretty much a standalone piece of software.
(and Python, which it is written in, doesn't follow a 6 months cycle either)

Regards

Antoine.