On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:30:03 +0200 Stephan Kulow <coolo@suse.de> wrote:
I see a *huge* fragementation issue with a one year cycle - especially if people dance the Tumbleweed and Respin dance. This would mean even less people work even less time on Factory.
Typical Tumbleweed and Respin users are not Factory users. Factory: They enjoy experimenting and fixing problems. They don't need any level of dependability as they use other computer for day to day activity. Experience level: High. Recruiting base: Tumbleweed users. Preconditions: Multiple computers, technical background. Tumbleweed: They want new software with occasional breakage and low chance of data loss. Option to fallback to older software as a quick fix to use it again is important to them. They will, most likely, help fixing newer version as they want it. Precondition is that they don't have to install and configure each version every time to test it. Experience level: Medium. Recruiting base: Respin users. Preconditions: None. Respin: They want smooth installation and run, with low updates count after installation. Here we can find 99% of people introducing openSUSE to potential users and most of the people that want to try out Linux, or some other distro. Experience level: None. Recruiting base: Computer users. Preconditions: None. In short, there is no fragmentation issue. Limiting choices will keep status quo, which is releases that sometimes work out of the box, and another require serious fixing before it can be used; on the same hardware [1]. This means that sooner or later every user will hit the wall and make decision where leaving openSUSE is one of the options. Those with heavy investment in openSUSE will stay as long as viable, and those that just started will leave. [1] 12.2 KDE was bad for me. Garbled graphics, lockups. Fixed using nvidia proprietary driver. 12.1 KDE was smooth. Ran nouveau for months. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org