jerry gay jerrygaygmailcom tue aug 5 2008 147 pm geoffrey broadwell wrote tue 20080805 1619 0400 michael peters wrote also need think deprecation cycles deprecate feature 1 version disappears next time code works doesnt 6 months distros provide support several years reminds chromatic reasoning major releases every three months instead four six agree dont want go much beyond six months major releases least two major distros aim decent freshness ubuntu fedora using six month release cycles im curious gain shorter cycle six month release cycle makes deprecationandremoval one year affair isnt bad fairly tell users want stability use slow distro matches fast distro aim debian instead ubuntu rhelcentos instead fedora example separately agree one month point releases seem work well us dont see reason change please start new thread moved offtopic jerry tue 05 aug 2008 141335 0700 branching