Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (542 mails)

[David Wright <david.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2006 14:49 schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
> David Wright <david.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > [...]
> > Also putting something new in late in the beta phase is not usually a
> > smart thing to do. At this point in the development cycle we should be
> > looking at a system which is relatively stable and the differences
> > between the Beta releases should be bug fixes for what is already there.
> > Major new functionality should be waiting for the internal development
> > and first alpha releases...
>
> Yes, I agree completely to your paragraph - but the package manager
> did not make the deadline and we really wanted to have it in 10.1, so
> decided to get it in really late (planned for beta3 but that schedule
> was not met).  I do hope that this kind of major functionality change
> will not happen in future releases again,
>
> Andreas

Thanks for the explanation Andreas. 

It is a shame that such an exception had to come so early in the life of 
openSUSE. Let's hope it all goes well...

Dave