Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Rob OpenSuSE <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/2/3 Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> > But on that note, when the alpha / beta / rc does come along -- why
> > should it really be replacing the factory download anyway? I really
> > think we should have /developer.html (or rename it to /factory.html)
> > which will always have (or link to) the latest factory snapshots.
> Actually, once we release betas it's much more welcome if people test them
> to avoid us hunting bugs that will go away next day due to failed rebuild or
> something.
>
> So I would simply add a redirect to the developer.html that can be commented
> out in a second. The wiki page it redirects to can of course stay - just as
> the automatically updated ISOs will stay.

So would it be possible to have :

     Factory - experimental packaging, likely broken may work;
recommended test by install specific update packages
     Beta - packages that should work, here for integration testing.
Developer rolls back update, that causes "breakage", until a
resolution is found (updating additional packages)

It appears from https://features.opensuse.org/305634 that zypper dup
is technically ready to be supported, so having a "should work"
release target, from the last version, would allow upgrade problems to
be caught "early and often", rather than in a frantic rush at end of
release cycle.
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