Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 04:50:41PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
To me there is not enough new material in 11.4 to make it a major release, so 11.4
Well, the original message stated that there had to be: - drastic changes in user experience during installation or the way linux works - drastic changes in the base system that make it much harder than usual to do live updates.
But there's probably not going to be a "drastic change to the way Linux works" in any near year timeframe ever. Linux is all about constant little improvements all the time.
If you go back and look at a distro from 5 years ago, yeah, it looks hugely different, faster, and nicer. But we aren't doing 5 year releases, we are doing them in months.
So I don't think these requirements are _ever_ going to be met in the next 3 years at the very least for openSUSE.
If openSUSE, like Linux, is "all about constant little improvements all the time", you're absolutely right. In which case we should just continue with 11.4-5-6-7-8-9 etcetera. (this sounds a lot more like Tumbleweed though?) Otherwise, if we desire to have major and minor releases, we should gather significant improvements/changes into one release, which will then make it major.
So, that means we stick with the 11.X series for a long time? Or we should redefine what the rules should be :)
I have a distinct feeling of deja vu - didn't we have this version numbering discussion a few months back?
However, we do have things in 11.4 that seem much "larger" than normal:
- systemd, a major way the boot process works, speeding things up massively - all wireless devices supported by open drivers - major 3d open driver advancements - large KDE advancements from previous releases - Tumbleweed providing "rolling" updates - possible MeeGo(tm) "spin" for netbooks
Putting on my reality/functionality-filtering glasses :-) , that becomes: - systemd, a major way the boot process works, potentially speeding up things massively possibly plus: - major 3d open driver advancements - large KDE advancements from previous releases I'm classifying those as "possible" because I don't know if they are significant enough to be noticed by the end-user?
p.s. This is why I feel the whole major.minor numbering scheme for software is broken, and just use 1 number for projects that I was/am in charge of naming (udev, usbutils, etc.) I think it's worked out much better that way over the long-term.
A working major.minor versioning scheme requires a purpose and active management. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-4.3°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org