On Friday 06 August 2010 14:47:07 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-08-06 12:48, Martin Schlander wrote:
Fredag den 6. august 2010 11:53:32 skrev Carlos E. R.:
On 2010-08-06 09:00, Martin Schlander wrote:
Fredag den 30. juli 2010 19:31:58 skrev Pavol Rusnak:
what may openSUSE lose because of it?
We lose powerusers of the admin type or do-my-work types, because the life cycle has been lowered to 18 months instead of 24.
Where do they go?
Fedora and Mandriva have shorter life-time (12-13 months).
Normal Ubuntu has the same (18 months).
So that leaves them with Debian Stable (30+ months), Ubuntu LTS (36 months on desktops), and various rolling release distros. Neither of which should be very appealing - at least not on desktops.
I know of one that said Debian, for the entire shop except a live or virtual with oS to keep track of us. Another is on Ubuntu, with intention to move over to Debian 6 when it is ready,
You have to wait about 3 months after release for the distro version to be good enough. Install, use for a year, then you have only 3 months to decide to upgrade.
At least some of that should be helped by this strategy, as it should
lead to
slightly more conservative choices in development.
I think I'll skip 11.3 myself. Too risky. The video thing is a nightmare at the moment.
I know of a few admin types, also good *contributors*, that have left the distro for other grounds precisely because of the short life (a poweruser probably knows several distros and has the knowledge to get going on another distro). So we lose contributors. It has already happened.
What has already happened is basically off-topic . The strategy starts from _now_ and looks ahead from here.
If you say so... if people leave because of the current state of things, making me shut up doesn't help.
Agreed. Well, I think that with this strategy there is a lot of opportunity to gain new contributors. Some of those might be interested in creating a long-term version of openSUSE. And if you can spare the $$$ there is always SLED, of course...