Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (229 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rajko M. wrote:

> On Sunday 07 November 2010 12:28:35 Per Jessen wrote:
> > Somehow I suspect you don't deal with a lot of business or
> > back-office end-users, Rajko.
>
> No as IT persons do. I'm assembler in my company and I don't touch
> even things that is easy to rectify, just because I'm not trained to
> do so :)
>
> I see people that hate the job and any piece of work place, including
> computers. They don't want to learn more than one path how to
> accomplish tasks they are paid for. They can't say to the boss the
> truth, but go around and complain on anything possible.

Generally speaking, businesses prefer stability.  Random unnecessary
change is bad for productivity and efficiency. 

> > However, I also don't think the 18 months interval is a problem, it
> > only means that people skip one or two releases, in particular when
> > they (the releases) don't bring any significant/desired new
> > functionality.
> >
> > > With servers is another story, but if you support services that
> > > need stability then use SLES, otherwise pull sleeves up and learn
> > > how to adapt configuration to new release, or find other in the
> > > same position and take over maintenance beyond 1.5 years.
> >
> > Yep. That works fine too.
>
> Sure, but that was steady complain by few guys on opensuse ML.

Understandably - it's extra effort, which could be avoided by having a
longer release cycle.  Or one designed to cope well with gaps. 


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Per Jessen, Zürich (5.9°C)

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