Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (328 mails)

[James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey guys,
What are the obstacles to the idea of  marketing a full release at X.0
and then releasing\marketing "patch CD updates" instead of
full community sub-releases(still a fully installable dvd if desired,
specifically for the x.3)? We would definitely be doing something
different than the rest of the distro's (good PR) and if the patch cd
could accomplish the same kinds of updates that we offer in our current
sub-releases with less work and more stability for the end user, it
would be a win\win\win: openSUSE team gets to show off YaST and Build
Service, marketing gets to differentiate openSUSE, the end users need
for a fresh install could be reduced.  Extra possible "win" - "long term
support "could more easily be moved to x.3 releases citing the x.1\x.2
as support levels for x.0. with the  bonus side effect of reducing
update channel bandwidth. i.e. security only on x.0 then nothing unless
x.1 is applied (This is nothing new to major software vendors, can't
tell you how many times I've heard "we only support that product at
x.1.2.3, please upgrade.") then x.3s could also be easily translated to
SLEs. It seems a waste that SuSE built YaST with all this functionality
to not let openSUSE benefit  from it's  heritage.

Any way , openSUSE is yet again filled with many exciting things while
still delivering the hope of many more. I'm happy to play with
11.1, while drooling for 11.2 , just as I was the day after 11.0
released. Thanks for all the fun!
JT
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