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Greg Freemyer
www.IntelligentAvatar.net
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Johannes Meixner
Hello,
On Sep 27 22:17 Michael Ströder wrote (excerpt):
IMO it's waste of resources (for upstream and distribution developers and deployers) to ship an older release at a certain point of time while a newer release already has the fixes known at that time.
Your opinion contradicts what is requested by enterprise customers and enterprise requirements are the base of Leap (provided I understand correctly how Leap is meant).
Johannes, I slightly disagree and it may just be a language / nuance issue. SLE is definitely the core of Leap, but are "enterprise requirements" the base of Leap. I think not. I would say Leap is a novel (not Novell) mix of traditional enterprise requirements and more aggressive openSUSE end-user requirements. The core of SLE is used and is meant to provide a level of stability in the core typically reserved for enterprise users. The majority (at least 75%) of the Leap packages will come from factory and meet the traditional openSUSE end-user use case. Given the novelness of this approach, I don't think it can be summarized in 2 or 3 words. Thus Michael Ströder's desire that packages be "current" will be true of at least 75% of Leap. Hopefully he will find that 75% satisfying. OTOH, for the core packages, the more stable SLE packages will be used and SLE will fund the maintenance of those stable packages. If a user has a need to be on a newer version and is willing to take on the maintenance role, then he should volunteer to do so. CUPS would be an example ofa package I would not want to maintain as a volunteer enthusiast, so having paid SLE staff take care of that is perfect from my perspective. In the case of FreeRadius, if the version in SLE is thought not to be current enough and someone is willing to step up and maintain a current version, then they should submit a SR to update it to a current version and state their willingness to be the maintainer / bugowner. I don't know if SRs like that are still being accepted. After all Leap is set to "ship" in 5 or 6 weeks. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org