-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06.05.15 Michal Kubecek wrote:
I don't think marketing is the problem.
Communicating the openSUSE way to the public surely is.
The problem is that with the change of approach to Tumbleweed and Factory, current Tumbleweed attracted substantial part of those openSUSE users who focus on new versions and new features. As a result of these changes, 13.2 lost big part of its "added value" and became less attractive. The way I understand Richard's arguments, he believes one way to regain some of the sense to the releases is to move them more away from the Tumbleweed so that they could target a different group of users, in particular group openSUSE failed to target for long time. And I agree with him.
As an end user, running openSUSE Tumbleweed on my work laptop and 'fool around' machines and running 13.1 in >10 VMs all over the place I agree. I would suggest the following approach for the future: - ---------- Citation ----------- Tumbleweed is for people with new laptops. Drivers have been mentioned . Releases are for long running machines, servers, etc. - ---------- Citation ----------- If I can run my servers on openSUSE for more than the lifetime releases had up til now, I would get rid of having to upgrade 'frequently'. And VMs and servers rarely need the latest software (drivers might be an issue with new servers and new hardware).
It would be even nicer if we could do three distributions: Tumbleweed, something similar to openSUSE <= 13.1 and some "LTS" version (possibly SLE based). But I'm afraid we don't have resources to do all three and there is no easy way to change that fact in short timeframe.
I would rather pick two flavors and do them well. Johannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with SeaMonkey - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlVTpbYACgkQzi3gQ/xETbK/uQCeOiWRskDXIEpfx12TaTFME5sx IX4An1Soce+CTwDHJ8WsgxdZd92PAhNy =YL1I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org