Hi all, As you might have seen on the announcement on news.opensuse.org and opensuse-announce [1], we're planning on merging the Tumbleweed and Factory rolling releases. I wanted to start this thread here so people can ask questions, and to answer a few questions I expect will be on everyone's mind 1. What does this mean for Contributors? Will I have to do anything different to get my packages into the openSUSE rolling and regular distributions? A. No - 'Factory' remains the name of the 'devel project' for the openSUSE rolling release. The process of Submit requests, Staging, etc, should all remain the same. Regular releases will be split off from Factory in the same way they are now. The only change is that the published, tested, completed, ready repositories and ISO's we currently call the 'Factory rolling release' will now be called 'Tumbleweed' 2. What does this mean for existing Factory users? Do I need to do anything? A. Yes and No - When this goes live on Nov. 4 it is our intention to 'alias' the current Factory repositories to the 'new' Tumbleweed repositories. So existing Factory users should not *need* to do anything, however it will be recommended that people change their repositories to point to the new ones as we will phase out the current Factory URL's in about 6 months. We'll be sending out how-to guides and reminders close to the Nov 4. launch of 'merged Tumbleweed' and the retirement of the 'old Factory repositories' in 6 months time. 3. What does this mean for existing Tumbleweed users? Do I need to do anything? A. If you want to continue using a rolling release, then Yes. Your repositories will need to be changed to the new ones. Guides will be published before Nov. 4 on how to manually do this, and we are investigating creating some kind of 'migration package' to change them automatically. 4. Why are we doing this? A. With the vast improvements to the Factory development process over the last 2 years, we effectively found ourselves as a project with not one, but two rolling release distributions in addition to our main regular release distribution. GregKH signalled his intention to stop maintaining Tumbleweed as a 'rolling-released based on the current release'. It seemed a natural decision then to bring both the Factory rolling release and Tumbleweed rolling release together, so we can consolidate our efforts and make openSUSE's single rolling release as stable and effective as possible. The decision to name this single rolling release Tumbleweed is because many of the people I spoke to feel it's a more suitable name for a user-ready rolling release. 'Factory' paints pictures of smoke stacks and half finished products, when in reality our rolling release is only published when it's ready. It's stable and a great choice for anyone who wants to develop on Linux and the latest software stacks or contribute to openSUSE. 5. What about OBS Projects that build against openSUSE_Tumbleweed and/or openSUSE_Factory? A. We won't be making any changes to anyone’s OBS Projects. OBS Projects which build against openSUSE_Tumbleweed will automatically be effectively built against the 'new' Tumbleweed when it goes live. Projects building openSUSE_Factory/standard will continue to build against the 'unpublished' 'work in progress' Factory project, which can still be a valid use case, so nothing will change there. Projects building against openSUSE_Factory/snapshot will effectively be building against the same as openSUSE_Tumbleweed, so it would be advisable to not build against both, but we wont be automatically changing anything in OBS. I'm sure there will be other questions and discussion, please reply below! [1]https://news.opensuse.org/2014/10/24/tumbleweed-factory-rolling-releases-to-... -- Richard Brown openSUSE Chairman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org