Talk:Rolling release

Article History

Due to multiple issues moved former article Rolling release to Rolling distribution, see Talk:Rolling_distribution. --Brevity (talk) 08:37, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Merge proposal

Proposal to undo the move to Rolling distribution. The concepts are really the same, and the problems with the content can be resolved without having two articles. Additionally, no other Wikipedia has a "rolling distribution" page, and the start of that article refers to term "rolling release," not "rolling distribution." This is difficult to fix without merging because "rolling distribution" is a nonstandard term (they are almost always called "rolling release distributions"). ARR8 (talk) 15:37, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

I think it would be resolved by deleting current Rolling release (and moving current Rolling distribution to here). --Brevity (talk) 17:10, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

I think it would be resolved by deleting Rolling distribution and redirecting to here; sorry, mixed it up in my above comment. --Brevity (talk) 08:38, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Against. Rolling distribution is bloated with list of Linux distros. But this term is not about Linux and we can't list every app using rolling release method here. So definition and explanation is better to be separated from the long list of examples. Elk Salmon (talk) 02:07, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Merged Rolling distribution after Wikipedia:Cleanup#May into Linux distribution. --Brevity (talk) 07:27, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

The Lede is Confusing to me

The lede says [a rolling release] is in contrast a standard or point release development model which uses software versions that must be reinstalled over the previous version .... That describes both point and rolling releases to me as they both reinstall software versions over previous versions (e.g. Arch updates coreutils from 111.111 to 111.112 by reinstalling coreutils over the previous version.) -- Jamplevia (talk) 17:33, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is now rolling release with rolling rhino so the lede example should be changed Evil Slug (talk) 21:28, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Staggered or staged rollout

As of this writing, this article appears to be the only place the concept of a staggered/staged rollout is described. There also are not really any good general articles for update provision strategies or software rollout, etc. I'm tempted to create staggered rollout and staged rollout redirects to this article, but I'm unsure if that would be the best option, since the relevant paragraph only explains the concept to disambiguate from it. Feel free to do that though, if you think that's the least bad option. ReadOnlyAccount (talk) 22:05, 3 February 2025 (UTC)