On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 22:29, Carlos E. R. <carlos.e.r@...> wrote:
On 2014-01-30 20:25, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
On 01/30/2014 08:34 PM, Daniele wrote:
I like the idea of 12 month release cycle but with al least one respin after 6 month. For me respin means: * release all media with all ufficial updates/bugfix. * minor changes should be allowed. * not so minor changes could be allowed for leaf packages
Doing this, installation bugs can be fixed and you don't have to install dozens of updates after/during installation from network, you keep more interest in the distro.
This is an excellent idea IMHO, plus we can give more attention to Tumbleweed between releases.
I would like that; however, it needs dedicating time to actually doing it, and it appears that man-hours are too scarce.
It would be almost be as having a 6 month release cycle.
No, that is a misunderstanding. A release cycle has the whole branding-everthing, release-number-changeing-everywhere, in short a whole lota stuff that for such a Service-Pack (aka SP1, SP2,...) is NOT needed nor wanted. Just these things: - re-intregrating of of all the stuff from the update-repo back into the release repo. (copy rpms, recreate indexes, sync mirrors, a week later clean update-repo) - If you want to be kind, use the *:updated-apps repos, integrate them too. - recreate the media (*.iso) - do a full QA-run to ensure quality (same as Factory-Milestone) - announce as 'release-refresh' or 'service-pack-release' Done. Best positive side-effect: smaller update-repo means faster 'zypper patch' due to smaller repo-data to transfer and resolv. - Yamaban. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org