Following that version, then, release 11.11 would arrive in November, version 11.12 would come in December, version 12.01 would be released in January, 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," Remnant explained. "There would be no codenames, and due to the rapid releases, changes would be largely unsurprising and iterative on the previous releases."

Alpha, beta and "release" versions would be available to users under this scenario, allowing them to decide how "bleeding edge" they want their operating system to be, Remnant noted. In a process similar to what's used in the Debian "testing" distribution, features would be pushed into the alpha stage only when they're ready, followed by beta and then "release."

'People Like to Explore'

Whether Remnant's proposal is accepted remains to be seen. In the meantime, community manager Jono Bacon shared thoughts of his own about why Unity has been designed the way it has.