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Hi, sorry for the cross posting...
So, for now, this will be a 'community release'. This might mean less QA but also no security updates provided by SUSE! Especially if it comes to the latter case we should communicate this carefully to our users as it will be more like a slightly more stabilized milestone than a successor to openSUSE 13.1. How to call it, how to communicate and what exactly it will look like - August. A very strong - 1 from me - Why would the SUSE Maintenance Team not be able to support a single openSUSE release in 2014? They're not going to be involved in the work the openSUSE Team@SUSE are proposing, and up until this decision for a November 2014 release is final, they should be planning and prepared for a standard 8 month cycle release in May..
Since no one knows for sure how Factory is going to look like there are several possible solutions to what we (project) call "Release". If in November we (project) have something like a successor of 13.1, there must be maintenance updates. It doesn't matter who works on it. Users need the updates. If we (project) end up publishing just an "enhanced snapshot of Factory" (meaning that we succeeded in keeping Factory usable), it might mean that no extra update repo will be needed since Factory will receive the updates anyways. In August (the latest) those working on the Community Release and Factory should have a clear idea of how the "Release" will look like. Saludos -- Agustin Benito Bethencourt openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE abebe@suse.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org