I'm not sure if you're implying that 6 months is too long or just providing more info. I don't think it is too long given that most distributions have stabiliza

I'm not sure if you're implying that 6 months is too long or just providing more info. I don't think it is too long given that most distributions have stabilization periods where no new versions will be accepted e.g. Debian 8 was frozen on November 5 last year.