Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, I'm sorry to bring up an old topic once again, but it is an important one and I believe we have found a solution that works for most users and still allows openSUSE Tumbleweed to move ahead. openSUSE Factory repository is be repurposed to move forward with x86-64-v2, and openSUSE:Factory:Intel will be set up as openSUSE Factory currently exists today. This change is necessary to align with the SUSE factory first policy (https://opensource.suse.com/legal/policy) to keep aligned with the project's sponsor's development efforts. The discussed and agreed upon solution forward is the following: Repurpose of Factory * openSUSE Tumbleweed main repository: + will move to x86-64-v2 (like ALP will) + i586 support will be dropped from the repository (i.e. only x86-64-v2 left) + -32bit packages as needed by wine and such will remain present (but no complete repo to be installed meaning only the necessary -32bit parts for specific packages will exist) To become Old Factory * for users of legacy systems, we will introduce openSUSE:Factory:Intel, the same setup we have for ports like ARM, PowerPC, zSystems, RISCV. This repo will build packages for x86-64 (v1) plus i586, so basically what the current openSUSE:Factory repository does. Community Actions Needed The :Intel port will require volunteers from the community to look after it. This will entail monitoring the builds, validating QA results (if not passing) and monitoring/pushing on bugs that are exclusive to these architectures Actions for Users: Users of V2 compatible machines Users will automatically be upgraded to x86-64-v2 flavors (which is what we want to happen for the majority of users) Users who can't migrate to V2 and i586 users The repository list will need to be updated away from download.o.o/tumbleweed/repo/oss to something like download.o.o/ports/intel/tumblewed/repo/oss With this solution, we provide benefits to users of more recent machines than that of V1 by using the newer CPU instructions (and staying aligned, and thus relevant, with ALP). Yet this provides a path for users to still run Tumbleweed on machines that might not have the needed hardware. **Once the new intel port repository is ready, I'll let you know the exact location of it. We can expect for these changes to take place in the first quarter of the new year of 2023.** Cheers, Dominique