Ubuntu may move to a monthly release cycle like Firefox

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/239804/will_ubuntu_linux_switch_to_a_monthly_release_cycle.html

Google Chrome started it and soon after Firefox decided to make the switch to a monthly release cycle to copy them. Now it seems that the Canonical team may move Ubuntu releases to a monthly release cycle much like the web browsers. These rapid release cycles are becoming a trend in software but when something is as crucial as an operating system, I cannot see how this benefits anyone. People usually want stability in an operating system and having shorter time in between doesn't benefit the users and the developers.

I used to be a Linux Mint Debian Edition user for the past year and that distro is still all over the place and unpolished due to it being a rolling release based on the testing branch. If Ubuntu makes the switch, how does this affect the many distributions based off of it that need to spend at least a month to tailor their OS to it?

To be honest, I think this is the time for distributions like Trisquel, with their very small development teams, to just base their releases on the LTS versions and tweak those in point releases. Someone told me that there is only one guy working on getting these releases out the door and with Ubuntu moving to a monthly cycle, it will be near impossible to keep in line with it.