Marijn Kruisselbrink wrote:
On Monday 20 April 2009 23:19:03 Dries Buytaert wrote:
In fact, a lot of big projects, like the Linux kernel, Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu, Fedora and Wordpress all switched to 6 month release cycles. Mark Shuttleworth posted some good insights about that in a recent blog post: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/288. I'm not suggesting that we should switch to 6 month release cycles, I'm merely bringing it up to get feedback on the idea. I don't think any of those projects have 6 month release cycles that break backwards compatibility, which I think major drupal releases do...
Marijn
Looking at that list, one thing sticks out - there is only one blogging/CMS platform listed. Even though I know that list isn't a comprehensive collection of project release cycles, can anyone find any other blogging or CMS system pushing releases out every six months? I'm not saying its a bad thing, but I believe serious consideration needs to be given to backwards compatibility and support length of releases. Perhaps one good route for Drupal would be to mimic the Ubuntu system of offering a "long term support"release after X releases. That would benefit sites with a large custom code base, or even the smaller guy, who is less tech-savvy and dreads the upgrade for fear of breaking their site.