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Feature changed by: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich)
Feature #308262, revision 4
  Title: repo naming convention
   
  openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed
  Priority
      Requester: Important
   
  Requested by: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich)
   
Description:
  Please openSUSE do make yourself easy to understand. The repo namings
  are in such a state that even openSUSE long time users get confused. So
  nobody can edit the wiki to inform users right now.
  examples:
  a) http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-current/  is more
  than a year old.
  ? same as:  http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-stable/
  b) http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2-RC2/
  ? same as: http://download.opensuse.org/factory-snapshot/
  but coolo said: "factory and 11.2 are two distinct projects since"
  Factory is normally rolling... But what is a rolling snapshot ???
   
  Solution: Some naming convention:
  1. never name a release current but stable
  2. name repo before release testing (like Debian)
  3. rename factory unstable (like Debian)
   
  Rationale: "snapshot" normally is a repository of a point in the past
  and should not point to the future (as now of Prerelease of 11.2 you
  have empty snapshots to be released tomorrow).
   
   
  Discussion:
  #1: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-11-03 17:53:10) 
  Typical example of a user confused about bad namings:
  "But I see that the factory repository has the version 3.5.3 of
  Firefox, whereas the factory-snapshot repository (11.2 RC2) has version
  3.5.4. How can a *snapshot* have a newer version???"
  seen at
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-11/msg00014.html
   
+ #2: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-11-03 18:21:40) 
+ Another example:
+ "If you want to test: the live and net isos are under
+ http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/ 
(http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/)
+ (as usual) and the 11.2 repo is uptodate."
+ Found http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-11/msg00033.html
+  
+ Even an Insider as Coolo doesn't know openSUSE-11.2RC2 doesn't belong
+ to factory any more?
   
   

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openSUSE Feature: 
https://features.opensuse.org/308262