Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (491 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:14:32 Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 09/02/12 19:52, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > On Wednesday, February 08, 2012 22:56:59 Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 22:02 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > > I've started to summarize what kind of major changes are beeing
> > > > worked on in factory.
> > > >
> > > > I know that some of these are also in openFATE but wanted to point
> > > > out the major ones easily - feel free to link to openFATE.
> > > >
> > > > I would appreciate if you could help me adding to the list so that
> > > > we know what's going on.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Andreas
> > >
> > > Is there a link we can look at?  This will be very helpful for events
> > > we market at in the coming months to tease the world about what to
> > > expect in 12.2.
> >
> > OOps, announcing the link was the goal of this email and I failed
> > miserably ;-(
> >
> > Use this one:
> > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features
>
> Thanks for this link. Lovely.
>
> But. What do any of these MEAN?
>
> "GCC 4.7". So what?
>
> "Plymouth". So what?
>
> These are supposed to stir the audience into a frenzy and make them
> froth at the mouth to get a copy of openSUSE 12.2?

These pages are the input for marketing - not the outcome. The page is 
intented for those working on Factory - and it's a start...

> I doubt it.
>
> Maybe to a programmer or a geek.

For those packagers and developers taking care of factory.
 
> But it hasn't even caused a teeny-weeny flutter in my heart beat.
>
> Perhaps if the terms were explained?

I hope some more explanation to be added - but not for copy and paste into 
marketing, that's a different step,

Andreas
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