On 6/29/22 07:05, Frank Krüger wrote:
Richard Brown wrote:
On 2022-06-28 13:56, Axel Braun wrote:
Proof me wrong, but I feel the community is not eager for a cosmetic update to a system, that contains various base packages that are end-of-lifecycle, and by this cant deliver the applications one wants to use. Proving you wrong is somewhat easy We’ve been here before The openSUSE regular release died due to lack of contributions While the numbers of USERS of Leap are very good, the number of CONTRIBUTORS to Leap have not
Are there any numbers you could share with us, in particular compared to TW? Thx.
Numbers really only provide part of the picture here, because for what Axel is proposing you really need a group of capable people to step up and say we are willing to create and maintain a separate python stack or a separate Qt / KDE. Its relatively easy for a single maintainer to come in and either update or not update a single or group of "leaf" packages and there are contributors doing that for Leap. Whats much harder is there are a number of core packages where SUSE employs someone like myself or a group of people to maintain a set of packages we do this for tumbleweed and SLE, but once you start to change core packages away from what SLE has then you'd have all these other packages that use those that may need attention and you also have to find people to look after those as well so its significant extra work on top of what we have now. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B