Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
On 2014-01-30T12:54:19, Robert Schweikert
wrote: - Given the current situation can we meet a May release date? - Do we skip the May release and move to a yearly cycle and release 13.2 in November of 2014?
During last year's discussions there were a number of people favoring a yearly release cycle. We have to make a decision,
- stick to 8 month or move to 12 month?
I expect this is going to be an unpopular vote - but I'm willing to be pleasantly surprised. ;-)
If I had to choose, I'd say "neither".
Take this chance to adjust to a continuous delivery release stream, instead of traditional "major releases".
No thank you. It simply doesn't work for anyone using openSUSE professionally or trying to support it.
Release what is ready, as soon as it is ready. (Meaning: passes acceptance criteria.)
Main challenges - a) define "acceptance criteria", and b) run the checks on those all the time.
Early on, there are bound to be blunders (a.k.a. "shouldn't have released that"). But the pay-off to users would be to get a stable distribution that is leading edge - best of both worlds.
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