Hi fellow Geekos, in recent days I have made some nice progress on scripting [1] for our slowed-down version of Tumbleweed. The repo setup evolved a bit, so that https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:ALP:Experimental:Slowroll has builds disabled now and actual packages are built in https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:ALP:Experimental:Slowroll:S... instead. Once packages are built there, they can be tested. Then build-compare is used to detect if we got the same binaries as Tumbleweed and in that case, `osc release` is used to copy the Tumbleweed version over to Slowroll. This helps to reduce unnecessary re-installs when we re-sync all of Tumbleweed later. In case we differ from TW, the Slowroll:Staging variant is released. In the 26 days since the base TW snapshot 20230822, there were 783 packages released to Slowroll and another 131 are waiting in the :Staging area. At the same time, 982 updates are deferred for later. The exact ratios and delays can still be fine-tuned later. ToDo: openQA: https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/135731 It cannot do i586 builds atm, so we lack the -32bit library variants there. We still inherit Tumbleweed's, so it is not too bad. Some -bootstrap packages are not released in Tumbleweed but are required for building, . Images (DVD iso) do not build, yet. Some changelog-only updates in TW should be skipped, but since we don't have sources with the download-on-demand method, this is hard to implement. We might want to decide on a different name - the etherpad [2] has a dozen of proposals. We should get a proper openSUSE:Slowroll repo before we can leave the experimental status. Ciao Bernhard M. [1] https://github.com/bmwiedemann/slowroll-tools/tree/devel [2] https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/slowroll-idea