How will Linux Mint longer release cycle impact Cinnamon development for LMDE?

[Leniwcowaty]

Hello!

I've been using Mint and LMDE for some time now. Recently the decision was made to push back the release of Mint 23, and also change the release cycle from twice a year, to once a year.

Up until now, new major Cinnamon releases coincided with Mint releases, and were then implemented as "rolling update" in LMDE. Meaning we would get a bigger update every roughly 6 months, with smaller updates in between.

How does the longer release cycle of Mint impact things? Will LMDE get Cinnamon releases regardless of Mint releases? Meaning if a new Cinnamon version, let's say 7.0 is ready before Mint 23 releases, will LMDE recieve this version as soon as it's ready? Or will it be held back potentially months until new Mint release?

I see decoupling Cinnamon release schedule from Mint release schedule as a great opportunity for testing, to ensure the new Cinnamon version is truly ready and stable for the release of the "main" Mint version.