Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Montag 02 August 2010 schrieb madworm_de.novell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> >   On 02.08.2010 10:43, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > There is really no feedback or suggestions? Come on guys, when the
> > > last RC is released, everyone wants to be release manager, but now I'm
> > > alone again?
> > >
> > > Greetings, Stephan
> >
> >  From an end-user point of view, it would be nice if the closed source
> > graphics drivers packages could be pushed to their repositories/vendor
> > sites upon release, not 2 weeks after that. It doesn't have to be the
> > latest cutting edge version, but one that provenly works and gets the
> > system up and running.
>
> That highly depends on having maintainers for those.

But doesn't it also depend on the allowed calendar time?

The building of external repos other than packman doesn't appear to
start prior to GM being nailed in OBS.

For 11.3, it took about 3 weeks after GM in OBS for the nvidia
external repo to get the latest nvidia driver compiled against 11.3.

Thus allowing 3 weeks between GM naildown in OBS and formal release
would give the teams updating the external repos time to do it.

Along the lines of having a more extended period of time between GM in
OBS and formal release, there was a discussion on the -project mailing
list to allow openSUSE members a period of early access to the GM
release.

The only way to achieve that is also to delay formal public release.

So if both of the those objectives could be achieved, I'd vote to
lengthen the time between GM tagging in OBS and formal public release.

Greg
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