Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (280 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 01 February 2011 16:38:11 Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:56 AM, jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Le 01/02/2011 15:52, Wolfgang Rosenauer a écrit :
> > > After the branchpoint there is only Tumbleweed and not Tumbleweed-11.4
> > > and later Tumbleweed-11.5 and so on.
> > >
> > > I hope I got this correct, Greg ;-)
> >
> > it's  like this I understood :-). Tumbelweed will be in sync with
> > openSUSE at (openSUSE) release time only :-)
> >
> > jdd
>
> And maybe not even then.  Factory goes into freeze for a couple months
> prior to a release.  If a package goes stable in that time, I assume
> it could go to Tumbleweed during the factory freeze time, and thus
> Tumbleweed would be ahead of a release even on the very first day.

+1

That's what a rolling release is. It's why Debian's Unstable or Testing are 
NOT rolling release distro's (some ppl use them like that). They freeze during 
debian release freeze time (more like an ice age if you ask me).

Tumbleweed will be a true rolling release like Arch and Gentoo offering, but 
build on top of an easy to use distro. Which means that while I will surely 
recommend it to more technical users, we WILL get a larger share of not-so-
technical users on Tumbleweed than Arch or Gentoo have. We'll therefor also 
have a bit more of an obligation to make sure it doesn't break in horrible 
ways, imho.

> Greg F