Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1256 mails)

[Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@xxxxxxxx>]

On 09/03/2011 05:35 AM, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > FOSS lives on trust.
> No, FOSS lives on its contributors, not random trolls who do nothing but bitch 
> around
> (even worse, considering that GNOME 3.x forces nobody to use GNOME Shell as it 
> ships with
> a GTK3 port of the classic GNOME 2.x desktop/panel)
>
>
> > Well he is right.
> No, he's not. Dot-0 releases in community FOSS projects are usually not for end 
> users.
> Everyone with some slight insight (=the typical Factory tester) knows that.
> Heck, that's exactly why openSUSE no longer releases dot-0 versions of its 
> distribution.

I do not think this claim is correct. If I remember correctly from the 
thread when we discussed the numbering of openSUSE releases, the drop of 
dot-0 had nothing to do with "dot-0 is perceived to be unstable".  
Numbering was chosen such that dot-1 is always in November.


Later,
Robert

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