On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 06:35:12PM +0200, jdd wrote:
http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-announce/2006-Mar/0001.html
said
"Our current plan for these snapshots is: ^^^^^^^^^
Fri, Jun 16 SUSE Linux 10.2 Alpha1 (Jun 15 is a holiday for us) "
so I was thinking dev for 10.2 started really only then.
As you can read above, those Alpha-"Releases" are just snapshots of the Factory distribution tree. The Factory tree does exist all the time and is continuously updated (according to some rules about feature freeze and stuff like that). You can find a short overview of the current changes at http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News.
==To be sure.== how is the passage between 10.1 and 10.2 made?
Developers do continuous changes to the packages whenever they have time to work at that package.
is there a progressive transition through Factory (for example, does factory had the test zen updates?) or is there at some date a massive change?
There is a continuous change but when some developers decide to do a major update (e.g. update KDE subsystem) then many packages are affected at that specific point in time. All fixes for the released distribution should go into Factory tree as well but not necessarily in the same way. It might happen that in the Factory tree one does a fix in a probably better but more intrusive (and thus too dangerous for the release branch) way.
how/when are important changes like Kde version made?
Whenever the packagers feel that the best time for updating has come.
I don't see any discussion in opensuse-factory about such things.
Well, nobody asked for such information until now.
for me it's clear in the middle of a distribution test, not between two ones.
I hope it is more clear now. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."