On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 01:53:14PM -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Correct, we need a better approach to the marketing of the snapshot based releases
I don't think marketing is the problem. The problem is that with the change of approach to Tumbleweed and Factory, current Tumbleweed attracted substantial part of those openSUSE users who focus on new versions and new features. As a result of these changes, 13.2 lost big part of its "added value" and became less attractive. The way I understand Richard's arguments, he believes one way to regain some of the sense to the releases is to move them more away from the Tumbleweed so that they could target a different group of users, in particular group openSUSE failed to target for long time. And I agree with him. It would be even nicer if we could do three distributions: Tumbleweed, something similar to openSUSE <= 13.1 and some "LTS" version (possibly SLE based). But I'm afraid we don't have resources to do all three and there is no easy way to change that fact in short timeframe.
and we need more people contributing to the snapshot based releases. ... "The 13.2 release required a large amount of work from a small number of people to make it a success."
will not be resolved just because we pick a different base.
I disagree. People have free will, they won't come just because we need them. They will if we do something to attract them. I believe offering a solution in the area where we have been failing to provide one for years is more likely to attract users and contributors than offering two versions of a distribution that are not too far from each other. Michal Kubecek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org