Hi Stefan,
On 2 May 2017 at 18:45, Stefan Seyfried
Am 24.04.2017 um 14:18 schrieb Richard Brown:
On 24 April 2017 at 13:08, Carlos E. R.
wrote: Yes, I understand that, but one of the benefits of this change means you'll be able to get rid of some of those conditionals when Leap 42.3 reaches end of life, as opposed to needing to keep conditionals around for 4x.y forever
No, externals have to consider old versions for many years. There are people still using 10.3, for instance. Some one might try to install Chrome on 42.3 and the script think it is more recent than 18.2
Um, nope.
The whole point of having a clear support lifecycle is to manage and mitigate the long term implications of what the Project has to support.
It also exists to set the expectations of the people using our distributions so they can make reasonable decisions as to their use of the distributions.
Of course people can go and choose to ignore that and use stuff that is unsupported. But that's the point, it's unsupported.
But do we need to deliberately forcefully break it?
Linux Kernel hackers do this all the time. But hey, they are Linux Kernel hackers and they fix up must of the fallout. You are "The openSUSE Board". Quite a difference.
Will be interesting who will be fixing the fallout.
My guess is: not the board, or at least only to a very small degree.
Or to put it another way - openSUSE will not support versions that are unsupported.
And it will make huge efforts to ensure that they are deliberately broken.
Sounds useful.
So after asking this multiple times, without a response: why not use version
150 151 152 160 ...
?
Can I get an answer from the board?
Does the board have a snail mail address where I can send this question if I want it not to be ignored?
Your suggestion was not ignored. We considered it, I also discussed it with Ludwig. Personally speaking, I feel it is a very nice suggestion, I do not have anything substantive to say against it besides "It is not my taste". I'm afraid to say that we will not be adopting it, but thank you kindly for your suggestion and all of your contributions. - Richard
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