On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Larry Stotler
On 6/14/12, Stephan Kulow
wrote: Let's discuss things very openly - I think we learned enough about where the current model works and where it doesn't so we can develop a new one together.
I hope I make sense here. Please correct me where I am wrong.
How do we go about deciding what makes the next point version? I thought the reason openSUSE went to the 8 month schedule was to take more time than a 6 month schedule allowed, but to get new versions out sooner than yearly.
My recollection is that openSUSE was on a six-month cycle, there was a two-month slip and it got institutionalized. Now we're on an eight-month cycle, we need another two-month slip and we want to round up to a year instead of institutionalizing ten months. ;-)
Basically, i would recommened scrapping this milestone stuff & go back to alphas/betas/Rcs,
First, we need to decide if we want dated releases like Fedora and Ubuntu or if we want "release when near-perfect" like Debian. I don't know that this decision has been made, nor even what criteria should be applied. Once we have a strategy, the rest is "just software project management".
Now, I like the tumbleweed idea. I would like so see more work to move updates to like KDE4 or GNOME3 that are put in their own repos(that I've always felt most users don't add or make use of - mainly because they aren't aware of them. Maybe they should be asked if they want them during the install?) moved into Tumbleweed so the seperate repos aren't neccessary for most users(which may be the case? I haven't tested Tumbleweed out yet).
Just my 2 cents - not technical, but a user/tester perception.
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