Richard Brown - 13:51 30.01.14 wrote:
So, for now, this will be a 'community release'. This might mean less QA but also no security updates provided by SUSE! Especially if it comes to the latter case we should communicate this carefully to our users as it will be more like a slightly more stabilized milestone than a successor to openSUSE 13.1. How to call it, how to communicate and what exactly it will look like - August.
A very strong - 1 from me - Why would the SUSE Maintenance Team not be able to support a single openSUSE release in 2014?
Well, we just haven't discussed it with them yet, so we can't promise anything on behalf of them. We are not saying that there will be support and we are not saying that there will be not. Simply it's too far and uncertain. Depends on the final state of things we will release and I guess there will be some discussion about what to do next by that time and we will have to talk to them about the plans...
When exactly we will be fully back to working on Factory, releasing milestones, and working on the release we will hopefully be able to determine in August as well.
While I understand the need for your team to defer any final decision on their availability until August, I think the reality of mentoring and 'spinning up' an increased involvement of non-openSUSE Team@SUSE members in the release process means we need to assume that your teams involvement in a November 2014 would be 'reduced' and therefore steps should be made to start preparing our new volunteers in the release process now. If we leave too many decisions to August, the likelihood of being able to teach people what they need to know and get a good release out in Nov 2014 is going to be reduced.
Yes, definitely. We cannot let Factory rot. We would need some volunteers in the meantime to start helping with Factory, making sure everything is Ok, pinging people, releasing milestones and stuff. I guess coolo or scarabeus will have more info about this part :-) -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. openSUSE Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org