From:
"Evergreen releases are still less than half the supported time of a
Ubuntu LTS release, so it would be a poor choice and difficult sell to
the city of Munich. That's one major drawback to openSUSE and one
debate that should be had; I've been talking to lots of people on
Windows and they're still running XP or Vista. Many people run their
OS for 10 years. openSUSE people want the desktop, yet they're
unwilling to support it longer than 18 months unless it's an Evergreen
release, and even then it's not Ubuntu LTS comparable."
From:
"In the past long running stable releases were the area for SLED
instead of Opensuse.
Will we ever get out of the mold of just being a proving ground for SLED?"
This is what I think we should do!
openSUSE Evergreen releases can range from 3-4 years of support but 3
is essentially guaranteed. Starting with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, both The
Server and Desktop versions will receive 5 years support.
We are slightly shorter by around two years for Evergreen LTS
releases, as the next Evergreen release is also free of cost and
openSUSE upgrades do work rather well. I do not really see needing to
bump up to a five year Guarantee.
I would like to see openSUSE start using the Major.0 release again and
possibly move to this type of release cycle.
14.0 Evergreen Release
14.1 Developer/Tester/Enthusiast Release targeted to development of
the next Evergreen
14.2 Developer/Tester/Enthusiast Release targeted to development of
the next Evergreen
14.3 Developer/Tester/Enthusiast Release targeted to development of
the next Evergreen
15.0 Evergreen Release
(15.1 + 3 Months) = 14.0 Evergreen EOL
This would provide around a 13 month stabilizing for the Evergreen
release before users need to migrate over to it. This would make an
evergreen release receive support for just over four years, but
incorporating release delays it would put us close to five years.
Evergreen EOL = (5 Releases + 3 Months)
For the minor update releases they are currently supported for around
18 months (2 releases + 2 months). I would rather see these change to
(1 release + 4 months). Most users do not keep minor releases for 18
months. Keeping them maintained this long does use up resources. I
think we should treat the 3 minor update release's as the proving
ground developer/tester/enthusiast targeted releases to work up to the
new Evergreen release.
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