On Friday 29 August 2008 16:55:07 Michael Loeffler wrote:
b) We may add again both KDEs to the DVD
Between a) and b) I vote b). Main reasons are: - people fear loosing some of their vital data during automatic (if available) KDE3->KDE4 configs upgrade proccess (eg: PIM data (emails, contacts, todos, etc)). Even if they don't fear it's still risky doing that yet, as they could then blame openSUSE for that (stupid I know but it will happens!) - KDE4 just might be not ready for them (eg: missing features) - annoying bugs which won't be fixed before <KDE4.2 (eg: systray background not transparent, kpowersave not yet ported to KDE4 leading to some bugs) - users might be interested in testing KDE4 but still have KDE3 around (offline)
Cons: - space limitations on DVD may prevent this option - maintenance and integration of 2 KDE desktops needed which the internal KDE team hardly can accomplish - we're backing a desktop which anyway won't receive much attention from upstream anymore - confusion - which KDE should I choose
I do understand these cons, and if openSUSE decides not going for b) than c) Release an official or non-official KDE3 CD - official : same updates policy as openSUSE 11.0 - non-official: community supported, updates only via buildservice (if any) Pros: - openSUSE provides KDE3 - less "trash" (packages) installed by default - save users and mirrors internet bandwidth (CD < DVD, right?!) - more free space on DVD for additional packages Cons: - more storage space (to be decided if should be hosted on Novell servers -> download.o.o -> openSUSE mirrors) - if officially supported, will require maintenance -- Regards, Carlos Goncalves --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org