Vincent Untz wrote:
Le mercredi 24 décembre 2008, à 01:04 +0100, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
I think it would be better to delay the box and add the first month or two of patches. They usually are a lot patches, and some of the bugs discovered and solved in the first month or two after release are important.
This part of the thread seems to be trying to solve the wrong issue (IMHO). Instead of waiting one month after the release to get patches for major bugs in the release, why not have those bugs identified and fixed before the release?
+1
It is possible. It "only" involves having more people testing Factory. If Factory is difficult to test, then that's the issue we have to focus on.
I think this is the nub of the problem. Factory often *is* difficult to test - either un-installable or inconsistent. Maybe if snapshots were taken when it is known to be in a (basically) complete state, with just the last n such snapshots held on a server (unless I misunderstand this, the numbers are low enough that the redirector / mirror structure is not really relevant here). I do try to use factory, mainly via "zypper dup", but it's so painful. For 11.1 I did manage to run all the alphas and betas after alpha0, and on a range of platforms, finding quite a few bugs (some of which were already reported). Of course, on PPC only RC1 was installable - that didn't help much. Happy Christmas / festive greetings / Merry Yule as appropriate to everyone -- Cheers Richard (MQ) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org