On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 03:57:41PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 18/06/14 13:41, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Followed with interest the discussion about the development of factory, but wondered if Tumbleweed should not have a prominent place between current and factory.
I choose to use Tumbleweed because it would give me a platform which was closely following factory and would even automatically upgrade my system to in the actual case 13.2.
For the moment I have the feeling that we as group are hanging at the end of the development. For example, in Tumbleweed I am still working with KDE 4.12.4 and practically everybody else works with 4.13.
Would be nice to have a general discussion about the place of Tumbleweed and its future.
I made my comment sometime ago about TW, namely that Greg's time and talents could be better utilised (if he so wished of course). I didn't, and still don't, pour cold water on something which he undertook to do but he does have a job and does TW in his spare time (as I understand it).
Now, looking at the description of TW-
"The Tumbleweed project provides a rolling updates version of openSUSE containing the latest stable versions of all software instead of relying on rigid periodic release cycles. The project does this for users that want the newest, but stable software.
"The difference to Factory is that Factory is bleeding edge, often experimental, not yet stabilized software that needs more work to become useful. Tumbleweed contains the latest stable applications and is ready for daily use.
"This idea has been discussed in mailing lists for a long time and was conceived into action by Greg Kroah-Hartman."
http://en.opensuse.org/Tumbleweed
is no longer applicable with Factory having changed (or will change) its purpose.
I agree, the way Factory is shaping up, Tumbleweed should not be needed anymore. So whenever people feel the development model for Factory is ready for everyone to switch to it, I'll be glad to delete Tumbleweed. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org