Quoting Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com>:
Am 23.01.2013 11:17, schrieb Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar:
No, this implies that at the time of the feature freeze, 12.3 project should have been created and detached from Factory.
IF we would do that, this would result, as coolo already mentioned, in a full distraction of resources to Factory and having 12.3 split off and kept in bad state... if THIS is the way the project is heading, I see a big sign of doom at the end of the tunnel...
Not testing new software early enough also will *not* make the product better. We're both right -- only history will tell who's more right :-)
nobody stops you from having a staging devel repo and 'test' that on your system... Example of this approach is the entire gnome stack: - The Factory devel prj is GNOME:Factory.. this has been version frozen last year in October (frozen to the 3.6 branch.. not on the exact version). Simply because the planning clearly showed: gnome 3.8 will not make it into 12.3 (release is shortly after ours only). BUT: That did not stop us from still packaging up the entire 3.8 stack already.. just, it's done in a staging project (GNOME:Next) which is a branched off variant of GNOME:Factory... once in a while (well, with every factory fix), of course, I have to rebase that project on top... but that's the price to pay for a solid release...
I don't care too much -- I'll just linkpac everything installed on my box from the devel projects into home:seife:testing and update from there :-)
So, why not use this approach but be a bit more 'strict' if you only linkpac or do even some version upgrades before you push them to the mass? Everybody would for sure appreciate if the package has the most annoying bugs worked out before they see it. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org