Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (465 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mandag den 12. juli 2010 14:33:04 skrev Chuck Payne:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Le lundi 12 juillet 2010, à 14:16 +0200, Martin Schlander a écrit :
> > > Mandag den 12. juli 2010 14:07:56 skrev Vincent Untz:
> > > > Le lundi 12 juillet 2010, à 14:05 +0200, Martin Schlander a écrit :
> > > > > * Must not smell of Ubuntu
> > > >
> > > > Why?
> > >
> > > Apart from the Ubuntu versioning scheme not meeting the first two
> > > criteria of my test,
> >
> > I can understand why it could fail the "100% self-explanatory" one
> > (that's debatable, imho), but the second one is met.
> >
> > > copying Ubuntu would also make openSUSE the laugh of the town.
> >
> > And why? My impression (and I have no idea if it's right -- on the
> > contrary, I'd be happy to be proven wrong) is that you're saying this
> > because you don't like Ubuntu in some way.

> Why change? Even since the days of S.u.S.E it always been x.0, x.1,
> x.2, x.3 and I think a couple times x.4. We shouldn't change to any
> other distro naming ways. We are openSUSE, more and more lately I
> think we are trying to hard to mirror *buntu. Come on, leave it alone.

Exactly. A lot of people are under the impression that openSUSE is trying 
(poorly) to be Ubuntu - and copying their version scheme would just add to 
this.
 
> I think what is place works, as a sys admin, I think we should follow
> the rule that if it ain't broke don't fix it.

There are a large number of problems with the current scheme which have all 
been touched upon in the thread(s) (I can't remember anymore what was on -
project and what was on -factory).

But I agree we shouldn't change it unless we are certain we have something 
that will work 100%.
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