On Wednesday 2012-09-12 19:53, Nelson Marques wrote:
2012/9/12 Jos Poortvliet
: On Wednesday 12 September 2012 15:53:57 Nelson Marques wrote:
Sorry for trolling... But please consider making only one release per year... 9 months is odd enough... and resource wise it sounds like it makes things harder. With OBS backing up, people would still be able to update or install extra repos easilly.
I don't think it's trolling, I think it's a legitimate idea and it has been brought up before.
My idea is that people who want a stable desktop don't want to do upgrades often... This means that even 1 year might be too low, but far more acceptable than 6 months or 9 months. This will also reinforce the identity of openSUSE around stability.
You are mixing stability with upgrades, which is a shortsighted thing to assume I think. Upgrades do not automatically mean loss of stability. Stability of 12.1 was, you could say, "impacted" by the introduction of 12.1. That took some more testing, and bug reporting. Stability of 12.2 was only impacted for me by one Xfce bug that I hit and then circumvented as it was a one-time occurrence. On the other hand, having to do an upgrade incurs other costs: I need to plan upgrades somewhat because I have openSUSE-derived packages (i.e. modifications to aaa_base, coreutils, etc.) that need rebasing for a new release, hence I don't want to do that too often. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org