Quoting Bryen M Yunashko <suserocks@bryen.com>:
This is yet another reason why I think the once-a-year release of openSUSE could be appealing. Not only would it be appealing from a technical and support perspective, but even in amrketing we'd finally do away with .x's altogether. Just have openSUSE released once a year to reflect the year. openSUSE-12 or openSUSE 2012, and 2013, and 2014, and so on. Or, if we want to get really weird, o2p0enS1U2E. (Just to freak people out, LOL)
If we want to consider it (not advocating for or against here): The 'upcoming release' (currently named 12.3, scheduled 'some-when in 2013' would be the perfect candidate to introduce it: - If we call it openSUSE 13, it reflects the year (and until 2099 we're safe with the version scheme) and is > 12.2, which was the latest release, thus not breaking the 'counting scheme' - If we call it openSUSE 2013, then well, the point is a bit moot.. this would always work. A yearly release sounds intriguing, but 'official respins' with 'some' marketing coverage might be interesting to do then. Simple example: GNOME has 2 releases per year; if we happen to release openSUSE 13 (assumed name) with GNOME 3.8 (assumed based on releases), waiting a whole year for a new release will make a lot of users' frustrated' (for not having the latest and greatest). Offering 'official respins' of openSUSE 13 + GNOME 3.10 (or whatever it will be called...) could help us focus the main resource on openSUSE 14 after the release, yet allow for some more media coverage during the year we bake the new release. Of course, the most 'difficult' part with those respins would be compatibility with 'other desktops'; I could foresee issues with updates that could potentially break other stuff (think new gtk, new glib, new NetworkManager, new <name anything>). And no, I simply use GNOME as example here as I'm much closer to this development, but I'm sure the same counts for KDE, LXDE, XFCE, MATE, [...] Best regards, Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org