Proposed narrative: === Tumbleweed - OpenSUSE's rolling release candidate. TW is tested via extensive automated testing and has a user base in excess of 5,000 installs. In early fall each year the release team implements a major feature freeze and picks out a particularly stable instance of TW. At that point, a final release candidate is branched off of TW and final release customization such as translation support is performed. After the branch point, further testing and bug fixing occurs until the actual release occurs. Releases are typically in early November. TW itself starts rolling forward again immediately after the final release candidate is branched off. === Greg -- Greg Freemyer On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Carlos E. R. <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> wrote:
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On 2014-11-17 19:23, Roger Luedecke wrote:
Beta is the common parlance for "safe but needs work."
To me it means "can be unsafe, and needs *lots* of work". Not only with openSUSE in mind, but anything. Alpha means certainly unsafe and also half made.
Many people only installed factory till the RC phase - me included, with some exceptions. Maybe now I /might/ install TW at some point, for testing purposes only, and inside a virtual machine, as I don't have a real machine to dedicate to it.
That's how it is...
Carlos,
I assume you know factory was declared a decent release at the start of the summer. Over the summer the reports were that 6,000 installs of factory were made.
That's fantastic and way more usage than factory ever got before. I'm very curious how many Tumbleweed installs there are now. As to it being beta vs RC, I don't know. I tried 13.2 beta on my laptop and it was as good as most opensuse releases. I have not tried TW.
Well, it's not about what it is, but what it communicates to a user that isn't at all familiar with Factory, OBS or any of those dev-mostly concepts.
Regular users who want to check out if this new release fixed this or that, might consider installing an RC if it's visibly declared as mostly stable. They won't readily click the "Switch to development version" link (they don't develop nor wish to).
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