On 07/01/2022 09.20, Georg Pfuetzenreuter wrote:
On 1/7/22 07:46, Simon Lees wrote:
Having said that the infrastructure is largely there so if a group of people who are passionate about this wanted to set it up it would be more then possible but as with practically everything in open source software it takes a group of people that are both passionate about it and are willing to put the time and effort in to make it happen.
And, too, as with everything in open source software, people have different opinions of what a project stands for and what its product should be about. I, personally, like Leap as it is - the other big enterprise GNU/Linux vendor (yes, the one with the red hat) ditched the free fork of their enterprise distribution - SUSE and the openSUSE project keep Leap, a free SLE fork, (whether that's the right definition or not) alive - and I value that a lot. I would even go as far as to say that there is no real alternative to the current, enterprise grade, Leap - other distributions are either rolling, not backed by a commercial enterprise product, or do not offer an open source community.
I understand that other users do not like being presented with outdated packages and legacy code - I understand people want a "different" Leap - but for me, coming from an enterprise background, Leap gives security and stability for the server-side open source projects I run and experiment with.
I think it is simply time to ship SLE 16. Keep 15 with security updates only for paying customers that want it. I like Leap, but this keeping of old packages is going too far. Four years, really? Are SLE customers installing new machines really liking 15, or having trouble? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)