Axel Braun schrieb:
Leap users are mostly more 'conservative' (or these are installations where one does not want/need to look after frequently), but getting every year some version update is not too bad. The change from 15.2 to 15.3 would have been the right time. Otherwise we may lose a lot of frustrated users.
Right now, openSUSE pretty much only has the two extremes in terms of distros: Tumbleweed as the really-fast-moving bleeding-edge kind of thing, the "rolling distro", and Leap as the "old and trusted" or sta(b)le model, what others tend to call "LTS" or "long-term-support". Leap 15.3 basically is just "Leap 15 plus some updates". If people want something in between, they need to take a look at other distro, most popular ones have that "in-between" model of "full update once or twice a year" as their standard offering, if you look e.g. at Fedora or Ubuntu, and then potentially one of the two extremes as a side offering. I'm not even sure if that's good or bad, as what I personally want is something really stable (but not spectacularly old) for my servers and something at the pulse of time for my GUI work machines, and openSUSE fits both those quite decently, so works very well for my personal use cases. That said, this may be different for others, and there's definitely a market for that middle ground as those other distros show - but then, maybe it wouldn't be good to take those one head to head anyhow. So there's good arguments for different options there... Robert Kaiser