Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag 02 August 2010 schrieb Greg Freemyer:
> 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.

That's a nice theory, but I have another one: it took 2 weeks after formal 
release to update the nvidia repos.

The time between GM and release should be short, because at that time we're
100% frozen and everyone has to stand still. I don't want to have a whole 
project stand still just because the maintainers of the nivida binary repos 
aren't able to compile the drivers for RC1. I'm using nouveau just fine and my 
prediction is that nvidia binary only drivers are even less a factor for 11.4 
release.

Greetings, Stephan
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