Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (328 mails)

[James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
> 2008/12/22 James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>   
> > 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.
> >     
>
> That would also have a nice consistent story for the version numbers.
>
> If most of the destabilising and experimental stuff, came into an X.0
> release, I don't think it's really viable to just have security fixes.
>
> So actually it'd be better to say that the X.3 version is the
> "stable", and have X.0, X.1 and X.2 getting updated for bug fixes, and
> new package versions, with the difficulty of introducing new features
> increasing greatly as the X.3 release approaches.
>
> Most openSUSE users will probably track the newer code then, but those
> who want to avoid the dislocation of the more developmental versions,
> can stop at X.3 until they feel comfortable, installing X+1.2 for
> example and then getting updates to X+1.3.
>
> How if X.3 is basically the same as SLED/SLES avoid the problem of
> internal competition, if it has LTS?
>   
I was thinking, LTS would only be the time between x.3s plus one dev
cycle (approx. 24 months). so on the
release of the next x.0 LTS would end.

> OTOH if X.3 is freely copiable and effectively evaluation, developers
> would be encouraged to use it, and then later on their customers,
> would be deploying SLED/SLES most likely?  An easy switch to get LTS,
> or to subscribe to updates, when X.3 is past it's short term support,
> might increase revenue.
>
>   
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