New subject: [opensuse-factory] Re: Status: Distribution

8 Jan 2013

      Hi,

Unnoticed by many, we hit an important milestone: The start of my
christmas vacation was also the start of the feature freeze. So
we already see an increased number of "can I update FOO" discussions
on this mailing list :)

To avoid having to answer it a hundred times: The feature freeze is not
black & white. What it means is that the before that date we update
all packages to gain as many features as possible, after that we update
only packages that are broken. So for every update I would love to have
a justifcation to change it, balancing risks and benefits.

I might not need to remind you, but we were a bit too lax with it for
12.2, so I for sure will hit the break more often this time. But it also
means that I have no problem updating packages that bear little risks -
_IF_ the submitter thought about the risks too and included testing in
his justification.

Factory itself does not shine, but is in a rather acceptable state for
a freshly started stabilizing phase, heck we even have the latest perl! :)

The bug reports for failing packages caused quite some action, thanks
to Cristian for that. Right now we have around 50 failing packages, we
had over 100 at that point of time for 12.2, so I'm pretty confident we
won't run into delay issues.

I still would like to finish the switch to 1G USB sticks for live media,
hopefully for Beta1 - which *another suprise to many I assume* is
planned for next week.

Greetings, Stephan

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[opensuse-factory] Status: Distribution

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