On Saturday 09 May 2015 14:42:08 Martin Schlander wrote:
The main complaint about the current openSUSE releases from the "stability crowd", is the lifetime in my opinion, and that would largely adressed by going to a 12 month release cycle, equaling 26 month lifetime (2 releases+2 months).
In my opinion we are all making assumptions here without actually knowing what is required by the group of users (Future and Current), that is not attracted to the openSUSE Tumbleweed releases. I can imagine that there might be a group of users, that wants to have a stable release that is support for a certain period, but I wonder like Martin if they would opt-in for a 3-year release cycle.
I doubt you can attract packagers to work on this thing. Not Tumbleweed packagers. In my experience even Debian packagers aren't to enthusiastic about working on Debian Stable or backporting stuff to such an old base.
I guess it depends on the amount of work involved. If I look at the situation with KDE, then we have here two parallel processes for openSUSE releases. The first process was to update the release with the minor KDE releases as that these would not cause any dependency issues and the second process was to provide a separate OBS project for newer KDE releases for supported openSUSE releases. We needed this separate project as that the experience learned us that with each newer KDE release newer versions of dependent packages were required. If I look now at SLE12, then we wouldn't be able to build Plasma 5 on top of it as that SLE12 ships Qt 5.3.1 and Plasma 5 needs Qt 5.4. If SLE12 now would be chosen as the base for the next openSUSE release, then it would mean that we release a new product with "old" packages. Maybe preferred by some users, but I guess that most users still would like to have something newer. Why otherwise to upgrade from 13.2, if you get nothing newer in return. just my five cents. Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org