On 17/11/15 03:51, Felix Miata wrote:
Richard Brown composed on 2015-11-16 16:32 (UTC+0100): [pruned]
Given the timing of how Leap was announced after Evergreen support for 13.1 was already announced, I'm not surprised the expected end date for Evergreen 13.1 is a lot shorter than Evergreen 11.4 Given the history of Evergreen lifetimes, if I were doing a fresh installation now, it would be tough to decide on the better gamble. Evergreen 11.4 continues to accept patches. Its repos contain updates provided as recently as last month. Had I had advance knowledge of this extended life, I would not have abandoned 11.4 for 13.1.
Given the evolution transpiring since 13.1 was selected as the Evergreen to follow 11.4, and that 13.2 looks to be the last ever stable openSUSE release for all current openSUSE users, maybe "official" Evergreening 13.1 should be skipped, replaced by 13.2.
Yesss! Now this is something which I fully support! Make 13.2 the Evergreen openSUSE version! And I tell you what: I am prepared - as I imagine others would be as well - to make a monthly/annual monetary contribution to a fund to pay for the efforts of the people who would maintain it as an Evergreen. But there would have to be a proviso: any "upstream" changes to the KDE desktop (such as the 'Plasma' in 42 and TW or anything resembling Plasma in the future) must be binned.
This might inconvenience current 13.1 users. However, those who installed 13.1 early on planned to have official support continue only until May 2016. Already they have had an extra 6 months official support, with planned Evergreen start delayed by same 6 months, without the planned Evergreen termination also being delayed.
Given the switch from 8 month to 12 month planned release cycles, maybe a better plan would be an extended official 13.1 support period, possibly until May 2016 to give 13.1 users ample time to switch to 13.2, and make 13.2 the Evergreen to follow 11.4, unless 13.2 too will eventually become an Evergreen.
Not "unless 13.2 too will eventually become...." but make it "13.2 MUST become an Evergreen in the immediate future". BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.3.0-4 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org