-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2015-05-09 14:42, Martin Schlander wrote:
Which group of users is this? The people running CentOS and Debian Stable today? I.e. a few server users who don't need contemporary applications and hardware support (I'm still not convinced about the SLE base supporting recent consumer desktop hardware, especially not 2-4 years from now).
The main complaint about the current openSUSE releases from the "stability crowd", is the lifetime in my opinion, and that would largely adressed by going to a 12 month release cycle, equaling 26 month lifetime (2 releases+2 months).
Yes. True.
I really doubt too many users will be willing to trade package availability, up-to-date applications and hardware support for the bit of extra stability from the SLE base. Particularly if the difference in lifetime is not huge (26 months vs. "at least 36 months")
Yes.
I doubt you can attract packagers to work on this thing. Not Tumbleweed packagers. In my experience even Debian packagers aren't to enthusiastic about working on Debian Stable or backporting stuff to such an old base.
And you also have to take into account the less technical contributions of marketing, artwork, translations, testing, writing howtos, supporting people on forums and irc etc. (this group includes me). I just can't see the attraction.
As a translator, I don't touch tumbleweed. I don't know what will happen with the translation, but one thing we need is a string freeze period in which we do most of the translation. It just doesn't work if the developers change things a day before or after we translated them: they break. As for supporting people on forums or lists, we need time to learn new features (developers don't usually do the supporting, and not many of them write good docs). I don't see this happening with tumbleweed, specially with novices. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlVORO8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WoSgCdHe6sUW7OySVh1ylkf70qUDNV D5MAn15TTwn3nV2MIHM8Jz7cbOS2JX6k =hc1v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org