On Friday 29 November 2013 09.50:30 Stephan Kulow wrote:
On 29.11.2013 09:24, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
So release cycle is about balancing resources, if we want longer support, we should probably release less often so we don't support so many things at once and we save some effort we can put into maintenance. And if Factory gets more stable I see no reason to releasing too often...
Balancing resources and balancing expectations. If you release only every 5 years, it might be perfect for those that are interested to run a server for 5 years unmodified but supported. But it also means people installing new servers will turn away from openSUSE over time. In the 4th year people won't install it anymore as it's only supported one more year.
The other variable is developer interest. Like it or not, but developers like to develop, not maintain. So you need to keep the release interesting for the developers.
And one final thing is reliability. People want us to be reliable. They need to know what we'll do in the future at the time they decide if or not to skip a release.
Greetings, Stephan
A two or three years rock stable ( can be tainted by obs repository (Stable too) for stability and a stable usable factory for rolling.(which could be dev's desktop, gamer's desktop, or dev server too) I think that 3+ years stable things are really something dedicated for SLE -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org