2009/2/4 Eric Springer
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Rob OpenSuSE
wrote:
As it stands, all the incentives are towards "free loading", letting other ppl doing the testing, and it's hard work to get closer to the development versions. Actually receiving & seeing fixes as they're done, rather than waiting till install of new released version favours participation more.
Absolutely. However, we do need a better (read: great) way of catering for users who do not wish to be part of said feature/major upgrade cycle (on a package and a system level).
Well Debian stable, is a security and serious bug fix only version, really it's very similar in concept to running 10.3 or 11.0 now, rather than the new fangled 11.1. Those who want to avoid an unplanned upgrade would simply use "etch" in their sources list. What happens in a release is policy, not inevitably decided as a consequence of technical decisions. Possibly you could by default enable and automatic weekly update for critical fixes, and at "End of Life" warn user of unsupported status on the Login page, may be suggest switch to SLE like terms, if they want extended support, rather than upgrade. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org