Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2255 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:25:55AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
> > Lew Wolfgang pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > > David C. Rankin wrote:
> > > > Kuddos to the Project Team,
> > > >
> > > >   And the rest who had a hand in settling on an 8 month release cycle to 
> > > > replace
> > > > the six-month shotgun approach that has seemingly killed QA for every
> > > > distribution that has tried it. Good job.
> > > But that means that 11.2 is eleven-months away! 
> >
> > How can 11.2 be 11 months away on an 8 month cycle? Since 11.1 was
> > released December 2008 11.2 will be released in July 2009.
>
> That's the best part, 11.2 is slated for November 2009 release. Let's see how
> much unscrewing up can be done for a clean working 11.2.
>
> > > I've just
> > > completely given up on 11.1 for new installations going to
> > > regular users, so I guess we'll have time to really become
> > > comfy with 11.0.
>
> Yep, I've resigned to being comfy with 11.0 (which I am) until 11.2 arrives. I
> can't spend 2 hours out of every day writing bug reports. (though some days I 
> do)
>
> It's been a while since we have had an openSuSE release where you just loaded
> it and pretty much everything just worked. 10.0 (SuSE) and 10.3 are the last 2
> that come to mind. I see the extended release cycle as curing a lot of the
> raggedness of the past 2 releases.

This is very strange, both 11.0 and 11.1 work fine for me and are better then
their predecessors... :/ (ok, discounting KDE 4...)

Ciao, Marcus
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