🌀 Time for rolling releases has come

When it comes to software system distribution, there are primarily two mechanisms

Rolling Releases - System components are updated incrementally, install once, update forever

Time based Releases - Releases stay at locked versions for a given cadence, 3 months, 6-months, 4-years

Most of systems are exposed to internet these days and require to be plugged for known security issues time based releases do provide hot-fixes to mitigate this.

Rolling releases are considered to be for "adventurous kinds", since a common notion is that they are unstable. But are they ?

With time there are systems like github, gitlab providing not only git SCMs but also CI systems, any github project can easily add CI, the amount of testing happening at component level has gone up. Distribution platforms also provide spins which test latest releases of components.

Rolling releases are more stable than yesterday and they are just getting better.

We should start seeing more and more products with rolling release distributions as their building blocks to deliver product feature at a pace that users expect, rolling releases provide a rock-solid baseline