On Tuesday 03 February 2009 23:43:41 Birger Kollstrand wrote:
Hi all,
There is discussions ongoing for the schedule of 11.2 and there is always the connection to this and that big project.
Is it not possible to rearrange the distro release so that we are not depending upon these release dates?
Would it be possible to have multiple levels of SW with different kinds of release regimes?
The basic level would then be the operating system, and that would define the naming of the release. So the release of the openSUSE 11.2 is connected to a specific kernel.
Then the desktop environments can be released and updated towards this release whenever they are ready and needed. Like now, KDE 4.2 should be made available to all users using openSUSE11.1 as soon as it's cleared factory testing and openSUSE patching.
Then again applications can be released based upon build service projects and feedback from users, maybe a voting system where there is a need for a qualified number of votes stating this app is ready for update.
With this semi rolling release I think it would make scheduling easier and also easier to keep the user base on a more common release level.
There are maybe technical hurdles, bandwidth considerations etc. ?
I have the following questions: * How and when to release media? * Even if you update the base system, you might need to update the desktops so that they work together. * How would a sample release schedule work? (without dates)
(Taking on my flame protective gear...)
Hope that's not needed ;). We do need some out-of-the-box thinking... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126