Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (146 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Eric Springer wrote:
> In short, try run factory as your main distro for a month -- and the 
> problems testers have should be pretty obvious =)

I've been doing this for half of last year :-), including full 
distribution upgrades in hotel rooms overnight, and in general I
found this surprisingly stable.

For the last few weeks things have been somewhat, hmm, rough,
though.  That's something we need to get under control, I agree.


As for your comments, I wonder whether we can make this somewhat
more concrete, actionable?

> Easier to download.

What is difficult on this front with current FACTORY?  Any suggestions 
what you'd like to see changed?  We now got smaller FACTORY updates,
which is really, really nice.

> Easier to update to. Easier to do updates

Personally, I'm finding "zypper up" and to a somewhat less degree
"zypper dup" pretty easy.  What are you looking for?  A nicer GUI
than we currently offer?

> and those updates need to be more reliable (in terms, of actually 
> downloading). Then the system should never be completely broken,
> and nor packages that aren't READY for *testing* be pushed.

That is a key item, absolutely. :-)

Gerald
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