Paul wrote:

Hi,

Given that it looks like FC5 will be in 5 months (or there abouts), would it be a good idea in October to release a .5 release for FC4? I'm a bit concerned that OpenSuSE is really starting to be whipped into shape and looks to be a strong competitor if they release OS10 a few months before FC5 hits the ground.

Opinions?

Trying to win a horse race to be the first on a release schedule with hundreds of other distributions out there is a pointless game that Fedora will never win. Those who want to get a preview of Fedora Core 5 can always run a development version or one of the test releases ( with the right expectations) thats planned to be released shortly

http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/

The FC5 development time was extended to accomodated new development that was determined to better done as a single strech

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5Future

By hurrying a .5 release in the middle we can only ensure that a half baked one without all of the necessary testing, integration and features planned gets out leading to disappointment. A open source project should set its pace depending on its own requirements whatever that might be and not based on other distributions. What is important is that we get a new release out there now and then and thats something being taken care of nicely as always

regards Rahul