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A new release process for Ubuntu?

“I’m going to suggest a monthly release process, beginning with
the 11.10 release. It so happens that this fits perfectly with
Ubuntu’s version numbering system, the next release would be 11.11,
followed by 11.12, followed by 12.01 and so on.

This monthly release would be simply known as release in your
sources.list, updates would be published to it on the first week of
the month. There would be no codenames, and due to the rapid
releases, changes would be largely unsurprising and iterative on
the previous releases.

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