Poll on Google plus with over 1200 respondents shows 89% of our users support an annual release cycle. https://plus.google.com/110312141834246266844/posts/g5FdGJ9iSqB I think we should however restructure the way we do releases in order to minimize the bumpiness of release. I propose a pseudo-annual release cycle. The idea being that our current state of release is messy at best and could use some last minute repository fixing and bug swatting. I propose that we esentially make the way we release now 'open-beta' at the 11th month. We then use the 12th month to get all repos online and fixed. Also would be a good chance to give us about a month to fix problems with our disc images, and remaster the 'open-beta' 11th month GM with patches and hardware support fixes. With this scheme we should see much smoother official release days by essentially duping the users into considering the state we currently call release to be beta, and giving us a month to clean things up. I hope my idea was clear, I am having trouble explaining the idea. -- Roger Luedecke openSUSE Project Member and Advocate since 2011 http://www.opensuseadventures.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org