On Wed, 2023-09-13 at 11:03 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 11. 09. 23, 11:26, Gus Fos wrote:
Personally, I would rather see Tumbleweed turn into Slowroll
I would not.
I also would not. I am academically interested in Slowroll and am curious as to whether the approach brings any practical benefits at all. I am open to the possibility that it might, but I also suspect that it will not. The best maintained code is always going to be the one that's best maintained, most recently maintained, most actively maintained, and that's always going to be Tumbleweed.
which should have been completely skipped in my opinion.
If we skipped 6.4, you would see the issues in 6.5. What sense does it make?
Exactly, problems will always occur, software development is never perfect. But Tumbleweed is continually the platform with the shortest time window between issues found and issues fixed. That makes it the best-working platform we have most of the time, and when it isn't any disruption is for a minimal time easily coasted by rollbacks. Slowroll may be less scary than Tumbleweed but I think it's inevitable that it will have issues just like any distribution, and those issues will be harder to fix and hang around for longer because of its slower- by-design model.
An other alternative could be to just add features to Tumbleweed to support the latest LTS kernel in the repos so that it would be more easy to not get latest kernels all the time without doing a lot of custom workarounds that can lead to breakage.
Everyone is open to maintain the kernel and fix the bugs ;).
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