Stephan Binner wrote:
On Friday 08 September 2006 18:21, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
It is NOT waste of time, but having more stable community OS *is* more
If something needs more time to become stable then move back the release date but do not call for an immediate feature freeze which invalidates hundred people's current work and postpones their work to an autumn 2007 release.
The features that are half-developed and unstable can be included in separate repository, after the OS release so you still be able to use them at your own risk.
I guess you have no imagination how integrated most of the features are. You cannot put those "simply into a separate repository".
Pushing half-developed features into OS results in SUSE Linux 10.1 - both late and unstable OS.
The problem of 10.1 was that long time planned freezes were not ahered to, not that its feature freeze was not pulled forward.
Making the Beta phase longer at the expense of the Alpha phase is definitely NOT a way to go. Most of developers still don't have their features implemented according to the current plan. Shortening their time now could discourage them. I'd even vote for more Alpha releases or rather shortening the period between them. Maybe it would help more if people were better informed about new features in the 'current' release and they were asked to test them deeply. Lukas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org