Per Jessen wrote:
Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
From a marketing perspective, I'm not really expecting to see huge numbers for the upcoming 11.3 release. I'm not expecting to see huge writeups out there about 11.3. I'm not expecting to hear a lot of buzz out there about 11.3. For one simple reason. The dot three sounds simply like a minor update to the family of openSUSE 11 product line.
Which is what it ought to be if our versioning had any meaning.
You and I both know that really isn't the case. Each release we put out there is an improvement, an enhancement, and yes even a patch to previous versions. There can be many new things in there, and there can be some old things that *work better* in there (we hope!).
Improvements, enhancements and patches all make for minor releases. "Many new things" combined could possibly make for a major release, but in my opinion only if they affect the base system.
who gets to decide what "base system" and how much affect is seen, felt, heard, smelt or tasted......or just read about? i dare say most of the mag/blog writers and buzz makers Bryen spoke of are *not* gonna count the absences of quirks, install oddities, user setbacks or 'little problems' (from triumphant bug squashing) as a great thing to trumpet across the net-scape.. nor will they breath heavy when learning 12.0 has the latest stable kernel, KDE, Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Apache, blah blah blah.....why, because their targeted buzz producing readers (giving them the eyeball count they track to put bread on their table) are looking for the next round of exciting bling.. after all, wobbly windows and spinning cubes is SO Yesterday. want buzz? Pimp the Bling and call it openSUSE 2011 Ultimate Professional Blitzoid Plus the excited buzz producers are, after all, influenced by more than just _this_ community. If you want buzz you have to go to the buzzers. ;-) personally, i'd rather read: "Ho hum! Another in a long string of rock solid, stable, dependable, reliable, predictable, just-works, fits most everyones computing needs (from embedded hand held wireless to back office server and Cray smasher) distro was released as simply named "openSUSE 11.3" by their Community Wizards today. In other news, the pimpled face, bubble gum crowd flocking to *buntu really likes their new retro green fonts on solid black backgrounds. WAY cool! AND, they can triple-click to make the fonts shake and shimmer!!" DenverD in case you missed it, my point: *What _do_ we want to produce today? *Tomorrow? imHo: answer those questions and THEN talk about strategy, version names, etc etc etc.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org