On 29/01/15 04:44, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:29:54 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
So, Tumbleweed is really a continuation of 13.2 which was spawned from Factory, right? No. There's nothing in the paragraph that precedes the one I cited that changes the meaning to be anything other than Factory. Factory is the basis for Tumbleweed, 13.2 is not.
Factory is a "main" branch, think of it that way. Each release (13.1, 13.2, 14.0, whatever) is a fork of factory at a particular point.
Exactly. Factory is the main branch and each release of openSUSE is a fork from it. If oS wasn't a fork from the main branch then were would it come from? The cabbage patch? A version of oS gets forked off and released - in this case as 13.2 - but the branch carries on to finally produce at some stage openSUSE 14.0 (say). In the meantime, while this Factory thingie is progressing in developing the final outcome to be called openSUSE 14.0 (whatever) another version of oS is being made available called *Tumbleweed* which is the new you-beaut manifestation of another version of oS called *Evergreen* which has not become defunct. Tumbleweed is meant to cater for those who want to be "at the bleeding edge" of oS but without the 'bigga problems' of being "at the _real_ bleeding edge" which is what Factory is if one was to use it; so Tumbleweed has been described as the stage PAST Factory in that whatever has gone into Factory is first tested/vetted/ chewed/digested and then released into the Tumbleweed repos. Except that this is crap because at this point in time Tumbleweed is identical to Factory - which is not how Tumbleweed is described in the Tumbleweed Portal.
Tumbleweed is a release based on the main branch. Patches may be/are (to use a git term) cherry-picked from one to the other (one of the devs would have to describe how this is done more specifically).
Jim
Thanks Jim, but this business of "one of the devs would have to describe how this is done more specifically" and the use of "cherry-picked" does not sound like a solid explanation of an openSUSE distribution which is taking up resources in both man-hour and computer resources. I appreciated when Greg K-H started Tumbleweed but now it has become a loose cannon which appears to me to have little control of what it is really all about. It does have some very fine words used to describe what it is about it but they don't match the reality. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.3 & kernel 3.18.5-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org