Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (349 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fredag den 6. august 2010 11:53:32 skrev Carlos E. R.:
> On 2010-08-06 09:00, Martin Schlander wrote:
> > Fredag den 30. juli 2010 19:31:58 skrev Pavol Rusnak:
> > > what may openSUSE lose because of it?
>
> We lose powerusers of the admin type or do-my-work types, because the life
> cycle has been lowered to 18 months instead of 24.

Where do they go?

Fedora and Mandriva have shorter life-time (12-13 months).

Normal Ubuntu has the same (18 months).

So that leaves them with Debian Stable (30+ months), Ubuntu LTS (36 months on 
desktops), and various rolling release distros. Neither of which should be 
very appealing - at least not on desktops.

> You have to wait about 3 months after release for the distro version to be
> good enough. Install, use for a year, then you have only 3 months to
> decide to upgrade.

At least some of that should be helped by this strategy, as it should lead to 
slightly more conservative choices in development.
 
> I know of a few admin types, also good *contributors*, that have left the
> distro for other grounds precisely because of the short life (a poweruser
> probably knows several distros and has the knowledge to get going on
> another distro). So we lose contributors. It has already happened.

What has already happened is basically off-topic . The strategy starts from 
_now_ and looks ahead from here.
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