-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-05-05 23:11, Richard Brown wrote:
For 13.2 this fell on the shoulders of a tiny handful of people. The reality is that Tumbleweed has captured the excitement of a huge portion of our current contributing community, and grown it greatly, and that's great, but it does have the side effect of leaving less enthusiasm and less people to work on the Regular Release.
Yes.
On each Release Day for the Regular Release, this ends up leaving us with relatively little exciting to talk about (Everything is already in Tumbleweed) and at the same time, way too much to talk about (the Changelog of 13.1 to 13.2 is insanely long and hard to filter down into exciting things to include in Release announcements) If snapshot-based-releases were to continue, we'd need to find a way to tackle that, and get people excited, talking about, and helping put together the release and it's marketing, something which is basically just the same as what we do every week, but maintained differently.
As a stable release user, I would be very excited by every new feature that I know is available in Tumbleweed that makes into Stable. And I would be very disappointed to find out that they will not be and that I have to wait another year for them.
Our Regular Release has always been pulled in two directions, with some wanting it faster and more innovative, some wanting it slower and more stable.
Yes, but that we want it slower doesn't have the meaning of using versions that already a year old compared to tumbleweed at release time. What we want (I have my user hat on) is that when it is released we can keep using it for about two or three years if we want to. Slower means that we do not want to be *forced* to reinstall or upgrade about every eight months, but that we *can*, at a reasonable interval (which can be 8 or 12 months, whatever is feasible). And we do want the new shiny improvements when we do install. It is not the same meaning of slower. You also have to consider that we are a mix of server sysadmins and desktop users, both professional and home. Basing on SLES is wonderful for the sysadmin crowd, but not that much for the rest. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlVJRwQACgkQja8UbcUWM1xglQD/TnMPp2oVjpW/y9SDVq42+rsg vhan4FlSqpAH+WuHkbEA/2guaoblffSc53N4rwj2UZ1JtzdIq1Z/XWTc07yEhfQ9 =4hI3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org