Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Donnerstag 05 März 2009 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> On Thursday, 2009-03-05 at 12:00 +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > To give us something to plan around, we would like to propose a fixed
> > release schedule. As a six-month release schedule is not something we
> > consider feasible to maintain high-quality standards, we are proposing a
> > fixed eight- month schedule.

Hi Carlos,

> You could consider an eight-month cycle with a bit of leeway. Like
> delaying one month if that means catching a nice enough release of
> something upstream. Or if the holidays get in the way, as you just did for
> 11.2.
Yeah, considered and thrown away. We need fixed schedule urgently - and 
holidays don't jump around much in the year. And we won't wait for upstream as 
outlined in my mail.

> > November 2009: "Fichte" 11.2
>
> Not September. Good! Thanks.
>
> > July 2010: "Rousseau" 11.3
> > March 2011: "Voltaire" 12.0
> > November 2011:  "Lessing" 12.1
>
> I'm curious about the version names. Neither against or pro, just curious:
> why "names" at all, why these names in particular... :-)
>
> Surely someone wrote/bloged about this, I hope.
Yeah, we had a naming convention summit here and ... NO, I walked this morning 
with my son and suddenly I wondered if he's already aware of himself or if he 
needs other subjects to make him aware he's an individual - as he started 
waving every other person he sees. And as I continued my thinking, I thought 
that Fichte is a nice nick name for the next release - well, the other 3 I 
made up in no exact relation to each other.

> > Public releases would happen on the Thursday before the 15th of the
> > month, and the gold master (GM) would be finalized one week prior to
> > that. We are planning a strict four-week release candidate (RC) phase.
>
> Strict... :-?  IMO, bugs, sometimes important, are only found during the
> RC phase. It's a fact. Some people only test at that point. A little
> flexibility might be handy to polish those bugs. 11.1 got a lot of them:
> some were solved just very recently.
So you're saying we shouldn't have release 11.1 before march? I'm afraid we 
don't have that kind of flexibility, as a matter of fact some users were 
already shoked when they didn't get their boxes for christmas.

> > * Netbook support
>
> Please, consider adding a setting in YaST for machines on battery with all
> kind of optimizations: cpu freq, cron stop, disk sync delay, package
> selection, cpu intensive eye candy, etc, etc.
You know about openFate?

Greetings, Stephan

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