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Debian to adopt time-based releasesDebian to adopt time-based releases
[Distributions] Posted Jul 29, 2009 13:27 UTC (Wed) by corbet
The Debian project has sent out a surprise notice that it has decided to move to a time-based release (or, at least, "release freeze") model. "Freezes will from now on happen in the December of every odd year, which means that releases will from now on happen sometime in the first half of every even year. To that effect the next freeze will happen in December 2009, with a release expected in spring 2010. The project chose December as a suitable freeze date since spring releases proved successful for the releases of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codenamed 'Etch') and Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 ('Lenny')." Evidently this decision was made at DebConf, but quite a few in the Debian community still appear to be surprised by the announcement.
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