On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:19:01PM +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote:

Preface: We are trying out a new way to spread status reports on the openSUSE distribution, infrastructure and other topics around openSUSE. They are supposed to help facilicate the openSUSE bi-weekly IRC status meeting (scheduled for tomorrow, 2007-08-29, 6pm CEST). As this is the first attempt, we are looking forward to your feedback and suggestions for improvements!

status report: openSUSE distribution, week 35 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

- 10.3 Beta2 released in time on 2007-08-23, overall feedback quite mixed, there is still a lot of room for improvement * hot spots: libzypp, dist upgrade, bootloader config, hal, bundle-lang / translation handling, patterns / cd/package layout. - no LiveCD for Beta2, due to time constraints * Beta3 will hopefully ship a LiveCD from day 0 - a couple of late version updates got approved this week, including MozillaFirefox, MozillaThunderbird, seamonkey, wine, samba, bluez-libs. * upgrading a package at this time in the release cycle is going to be very unlikely now.

There are a couple of exceptions to this, that I should have mentioned. The most important ones are: * GNOME (upcoming 2.20) * KDE4

- we are currently preparing for an internal test build, scheduled for 2007-08-29, to get another round of testing for libzypp - way to many open red bugs: 31 blocker, 103 critical * will need to review the critical bugs * if there is anything

Is there anything missing? Please let us know, if we are ignoring any hot spots?

Thanks, Christoph -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Hello Marcio, On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 08:30 -0300, Druid wrote:

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There are a couple of exceptions to this, that I should have mentioned. The most important ones are: * GNOME (upcoming 2.20) * KDE4

Isnt this a huge change to be made while we are in beta, and cant it maybe lead to major breakage and lots of bugs? I mean, gnome is usually buggy, but as it may affect other stuff (like gtk programs...)

sounded kinda bad for me, but maybe I dont have all the information, who knows...

That is a good question. We are tracking each of the Beta releases of GNOME 2.20 which will release before openSUSE-10.3. The only reason this is possible is that GNOME has freezes (feature, string, code, etc.) that are at least as strict if not more than our own. There is actually very little risk here. We have done this in the past with and even tighter schedule, 10.0 iirc. -Gary --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org