Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (189 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Bryen wrote:
> We do have a 2 year support cycle, so people don't *have* to jump to
> the next version out.

Historically Novell has been providing two years of security updates
for openSUSE releases.  (Support is something different.)  This is not 
cast in stone, though.

> The downside of course is with a 6-month cycle, we have 4 versions to 
> support in a 2 year support cycle.  Actually 5 if you consider the 
> support going into the development of the next version.

The maximum I feel we should do is two releases plus two months of overlap 
between N-2 and N.

> I think the focus of discussion should be more about how we can improve 
> the experience, thus making people likelier to participate earlier on.

Fully agreed.

Gerald
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