On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> wrote:
Hi,
Am 09.05.2015 um 17:56 schrieb Angelos Tzotsos:
I also feel that expanding the gap between Tumbleweed packages and stable release, will make users move away from openSUSE.
In the end it has to do with the project's vision: Do we want to be a stable alternative to Debian and CentOS for server usage (as SLE is) or do we want to be something stable but also appealing to the Desktop users, who are willing to upgrade package versions once a year. Hitting both targets with one distribution is a long shot. And if we don't have the resources to maintain 2 distributions (SLE-based and Factory-based), lets chose one closer to our current users and not enter the server market.
In a perfect world we probably want three distributions: Tumbleweed openSUSE as of today/yesterday openSUSE "LTS"
At least I would want this (I could live w/o Tumbleweed actually).
But this is totally out of the scope of we can maintain at the moment. (Actually not that totally because with Evergreen we have such a thing but it suffers from too few contributors.)
Now the question really comes down to "closer to our current users". As far as I can remember we had stats that a _lot_ of people are still on old outdated, unmaintained openSUSE versions.
https://lizards.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/uuid_month.png From: https://lizards.opensuse.org/2013/08/23/more-on-statistics/ Unfortunately they are a couple years old. And yes they are surprising. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org