Aloha! On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:50 +0200, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
Hi!
This has been discussed somehow but without any conclusion. Current versioning scheme is confusing and does not make sense (now that we are not syncing releases with SLE). If we are willing to change this we should come up with some proposals and let the community decide. Ideas?
Sorry to sound ignorant, but could you advise as to where it was discussed? I'm not looking at picking a fight or anything - if it was internally/behind closed doors so to speak then fine, I'm just curious :-) Is there any reason we are trying to distance ourselves from SLE? If anything we need to bring both closer together. Almost emulating the way Ubuntu do their LTS releases. It is working very well for them, and is growing not only their consumer users, but also their enterprise users. But the big win for them is they have a single community. This is something we don't have, and we do actually need it.
I came up with this one: name the next release openSUSE 12 (not 12.0) and continue normally (13, 14). Also make the codenames (present in /etc/issue atm) more prominent and also market them (like openSUSE 12 Moss).
Just using full digits is OK, but we'll just be copying Fedora. RedHat used to have a similar scheme to us, and then changed it when they pushed Fedora out the door. Using dates is just mimicking other distros too. Believe it or not, our versioning scheme is actually unique and as such is a marketing tool :) I'm not saying it is perfect, maybe we need to actually change how we use it. What I mean by that is every even point release so .0 .2 we try and have as much shiny in there as possible, and every odd point release we concentrate on stability? Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin. GPG: 0x3A36312F openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org