[Hamara-devel] rolling or fixed release?

[Vikas Tara]

On 02/03/15 18:20, Raju D. Vindane wrote:
> At bottom,
> On 03/02/2015 11:10 PM, Amardeep Singh wrote:
>> I would say rolling release is best. The fixed release approach is good
>> but only when you have number of bugs and version upgrades of packages.
>>
>> For day to day bugs rolling release or even updates seems fine to me.
>>
>> Amardeep
>>
>> On Monday 02 March 2015 11:00 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>>> What does everyone think the best approach for hamara linux should be?
>>>
>>> Some say that a rolling release approach is less stable or only for
>>> super users, but I'm not sure.
>>>
>>> If patches are applied and packages tested carefully via the
>>> developers repo - then maybe rolling release is
>>> a better way to enhance user experience?
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> I know of two main OS which are having rolling releases, PCLinuxOS and 
> Arch.
> While Arch is focused mainly around Experienced users, PCLinuxOS is 
> widely used
> and is having quite a bit of big community around it. Our aim should 
> be to make Hamara a
> rolling release distribution and still keep it as simple as possible 
> for the user.
Ubuntu Core follows an interesting hybrid - frequent releases - with new 
ISO's etc.

The benefit of this approach is that the user can stay on say version 
1.0, but if they wish to move to 1.1 they can do so by performing a 
dist-upgrade.

This might be a nice middle ground approach?