More precisely, industry is mostly locked on the yearly period, notably for budgeting considerations, hence once-a-year or once-every-other-year releases, and multi-year support plans for enterprise-bound software, instead of several-times-a-year. So, if indeed we resumed a once-a-year schedule, updating every second release would make sense. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerhard Killesreiter" <gerhard@killesreiter.de> To: <development@drupal.org> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:03 AM Subject: Re: [development] Go PHP 5, Go! [...]
Ubuntu is doing ths in order to get a higher industry adaption for their Linux distribution. Industry apparently likes to not have software every few years.
However, Drupal is mainly used for Websites. Websites that show to the world how fashionable, geeky, modern, etc the company that has them is. For this reason, websites get refurbished every two years or so. Matches excellent to Drupal's release cycle if you only update every second release. [...]