On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:13 PM, llemikebyw@aol.com
However, I thought it worth mentioning because I see openSuSE developers slipping on delivery due to cascading issues caused by the decision to adopt many changes all at once.
That was my first thought too, after years of hard-won lessons in software engineering and project management, starting from "The Mythical Man-Month". But there were also two severe hard disk crashes, and openSUSE isn't the only distro that's slipped a date recently - Fedora's "Beefy Miracle" took three one-week slips for show-stopper bugs as I recall. Community distros *want* to be on the bleeding edge relative to, say, SLE, RHEL or Debian Stable.
Meanwhile, while previously an openSuSE advocate, I am now adopting alternatives because I feel openSuSE is moving away from my needs - and suspect I am not the only one.
My only frustrations with openSUSE at the moment are in the area of IaaS and PaaS. I wish we had something like Cloud Foundry or OpenShift Origin in 12.2, and I'm not about to wait another 8-month release cycle to get a PaaS - I'm going to migrate that project to Fedora / OpenShift Origin. But that's hardly a desire for a "stable server" - it's a desire for a bleeding edge gizmo that Fedora has and openSUSE doesn't. -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb Computational Journalism Server http://j.mp/compjournoserver Data is the new coal - abundant, dirty and difficult to mine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org