On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 15:24 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Sunday, 2009-10-11 at 14:11 +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 12:57 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
No, I prefer the current state. If asked, I prefer longer maintenance periods than the current 18 month period.
You mean something like giving the XX.3 release Long Term Support? Sounds nice, though a previous request for LTS has been declined some time ago... (probably too much work involved for the official staff)
That would be even nicer (and there is an initiative to get it done outside of Novell). For me, a two year period, like we had till now, would be enough. With an 18 month period it is impossible to plan the update for a fixed period of the year (say, the vacation period). It makes things difficult.
Outside Novell? You realize the enormity of such a job? perhaps they can make some "vintage" branges on the OBS and put there the entire 7.3, 8.3, 9.3 (and soon 10.3) trees in. But how many people would be able/willing to maintain all of those packages? Can't imagine that Novell is willing to spent any (human)resourses on it. So it would be a 100% community support thing. May be for some individual packages, but _ALL_ ??? Mission Impossible. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org